{"id":1183,"date":"2012-05-19T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T02:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2012-05-19T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T02:56:20","slug":"another-old-pc-another-linux-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/distros\/another-old-pc-another-linux-install","title":{"rendered":"Another Old PC, another Linux install"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all, this post is being written from another install of Crunchbang Linux<\/a>. \u00a0Why is this worth mentioning? Well, it really isn’t worth mentioning, but I did anyway.<\/p>\n

Recently I acquired a PC that belonged to a friend of mine. I offered $20 and, well, it has its limitations, but what do you want for 20 dollars, right? Right. Here’s the technical details: Shuttle XPC with an AMD64 Proc., DVD-ROM Optical Drive, 1GB of RAM, and a 20GB Hard disk. \u00a0My intended purpose for this machine is to perform software experiments and testing. \u00a0Nothing crazy mind you, so spending money to fix\/improve it would be money wasted.<\/p>\n

So, being a Linux enthusiast, I gave several Distros a test drive on this machine. Distros such as Mint<\/a> (Debian, LXDE, Gnome), Crunchbang Linux, and Ubuntu<\/a> (main Gnome 2\/3, and Lubuntu), as these are my recent (and old) favorites. You can say I prefer the Debian Based Linux OS, but that’s a story for another blog post.<\/p>\n

The results: (because surely a fair amount of those actually reading this blog are curious to learn what actually happened).<\/p>\n

Linux Mint Results:<\/h2>\n

Mint 12 LXDE would not install, Mint 12 Debian Edition crashed mid-way thru installation, and Mint 11 GNOME was the winner in the Stable Mint environment for this machine.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu Results:<\/h2>\n

Ubuntu 10.04.4 got most of the way through the install and crashed. \u00a0Lubuntu 12.04 installed nicely, but had lots of crashing during web browser use, so bye-bye. Ubuntu 11.04 GNOME was ok. \u00a0Ubuntu 12.04 GNOME not even a consideration based on inability to install a recent Linux Mint. \u00a0My Ubuntu goal was to use a long-term-support release if possible.<\/p>\n

Crunchbang Linux Results:<\/h2>\n

This particular machine has had Crunchbang installed on it several times over the last 2-3 months, for stability tests and Linux multi-boot (GRUB) experiments. \u00a0I must say, each and every time the installation was a success, and the speed of the Openbox environment (which are the main reasons I use Crunchbang on my other Linux Desktop PC) performs superbly.<\/p>\n

There’s just something about this machine I guess. \u00a0With 1GB of Ram, and (seemingly) other hardware-related issues, Crunchbang fits right in with its low-resource footprint. \u00a0Based on your hardware, the age and condition of said hardware, some software is just going to work better than others.<\/p>\n

This is why I love Linux. When faced with a challenge, try, try again until you find what you want in terms of customization, efficiency of use, and last but not (by a longshot) least —stability<\/strong>. I cannot emphasize this enough.<\/p>\n

The next article will discuss SugarCRM, and why it’s awesome to have an extra PC around.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

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Hi all, this post is being written from another install of Crunchbang Linux. \u00a0Why is this worth mentioning? Well, it really isn’t worth mentioning, but I did anyway. Recently I acquired a PC that belonged to a friend of mine. I offered $20 and, well, it has its limitations, but what do you want for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,24],"tags":[43,21,42,62],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distros","category-install-linux","category-freedom-choice","tag-crunchbang","tag-install","tag-openbox","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}