So I’ve been running Sidux for a few days now. It started off wonderfully: my homeserver felt snappier than ever before running bog standard Ubuntu. However, after having installed my usualy Apache and MySQL for testing some development things at home the machine has been crashing at random times. Usually when I’m not home. This is the biggest problem, since I can’t get into the machine at all anymore, so a reset is out of the question. Also my WoW guild didn’t have teamspeak last night because it had crashed and I wasn’t home but at a work dinner.
So, I’ve decided to try and get the best of both worlds by starting with a simple command-line install of Ubuntu and then installing only the packages I need. I will also not be using Gnome but XFCE, maybe combining it with OpenBox. You might be wondering why I’m not going for Xubuntu, and I’ll tell you: it’s almost just as bloated as normal Gnome.
The speed difference running Sidux was unbelievable, I was even able to play 720p on my server. Something I never thought would be possible with this kind of hardware.
So my experiment is not quite over yet and because I do require a little bit of stability I am going to stick with Ubuntu (although not a normal desktop install).
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