The Shuttle i3 experience.

[Member techcodie]

I just spent 3 days trying to find something reasonable to run on a Shuttle PC with an i3 and no HDD and minus one cooling fan.

Req 1: Has to run live, has to have a persistent state, and for Linus’ sake, it should run comfortably in 1G.

Linux Mint – Failed. Hit the swap file so much after 2 hours of use that the system hard locks. (Hey, I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen in linux)
LXDE – Same issue as above.

And I could run the list of distros I went through, but just google the top ten lightweight linux distros, and that’s how I wound up here.

I’m installed and running with the Live USB, then using the tools to make an UBER USB. It’s freaking awesome.

I’m still poking around and installing things, and get a hard drive next week. If things continue like this, I think you got a winner.

techcodie

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Hello, techcodie.

I always run “frugal” — the live usb but from hdd/ssd. I (too) think it’s a winner.
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