Stali: A new static Linux distribution

Re:Stali: A new static Linux distribution by vacri on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:34AM (#12595821)

Ubuntu 16.04 is not meant for lightweight machines - for example, the Unity desktop assumes you have 3D acceleration (which sucks for using in a VM). It's not systemd that makes your atom netbook slow (well, assuming you're using Unity...)

Re: systemd itself, I could care less about the bells and whistles, but every time I go back to fiddle with a sysv init script, I yearn for either of upstart or systemd...

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Re:Stali: A new static Linux distribution by hd4 on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @03:17AM (#12595967)

Ubuntu actually has a low graphics mode so that it can be used in VMs

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/09/19/low-graphics-mode-in-...

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Re:Stali: A new static Linux distribution by vacri on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @03:36AM (#12596029)

I stand corrected. Maybe I'm thinking of 14.04?

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Re:Stali: A new static Linux distribution by morganvachon on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @08:33AM (#12597143)

Nope, Xfce on all the Linux distros on that machine, except for Elementary. I was surprised to find that Elementary's Pantheon was faster than Xfce on Ubuntu 16.04.

Besides, it wasn't a test of DE performance alone, it was a combination of factors including boot time, script run time, video encode/decode, build from source time, and so on. Yes, DE performance was also a metric, and for fun I did load Unity on both 14.04 and 16.04 just to see what would happen. If I were basing it on DE performance alone and used the default DE for each distro, both Ubuntu versions would be the slowest by far.

Also, 3D acceleration was not an issue, the Intel video hardware in that machine is fully accelerated in Linux and OpenBSD.

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