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Purple Rabbit:

--- Quote from: notalent on 07 Jul 2009, 06:25:32 pm ---To give more info, I have two 'extra' six core processors that won't be used for a bit.  So I wanted to do some crunching on them. The system has 4GB of memory.

The system will just be running headlessly once I get it up and going.  I'll just log in via vnc or putty however I have it set.
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With the system you describe you don't need any "light" Linux distributions, but you don't need Ubuntu either  :) The light distributions sometimes come with problems of their own (old kernels, memory optimized for small memory spaces, missing libraries, no multi-core processing, etc.).  You just described what I'm doing with SUSE. I have 6 headless computers (4 Linux, 2 Windows) running on my wireless LAN. I use VNC to access them. That needs the X server tho.

With your Linux skill level I'd recommend staying with the no command line option (i.e graphics). I would consider myself about a 7. I've been using Linux for 5 years, but I only learn stuff when I have a problem  ::) The graphics interface helps a lot.

Ubuntu was optimized for the masses and not really for what you want to do. I tried Fedora, Mandrake (or whatever), and Ubuntu. I kept coming back to SUSE for my needs. It seems to be about the best for me. It's easy to install and customize, but there are a few problems with the latest KDE version.  Personal choices of Linux distributions border upon religion so I won't go any further  ;D

I wish you luck in your endeavor. I'm willing to help where I can.

Rick

notalent:
well I took your advice and installed sidux.  Lost a few days because I was having an issue with using a ps/2 mouse + keyboard...

Not sure what happened, the live cd allowed me to use them both.  But when I had installed it on a hard drive I could only use the keyboard.  THen I plugged in a usb mouse, and I could only use that, no keyboard...

So I hunted down a usb keyboard to use (with the usb mouse) and it works fine.  Got everything installed (except the optimized seti, I'll tackle that on Monday) and it's running well.

I like the xfce environment, very nice.  Hopefully this will start churning out some good numbers.

sunu:
notalent, that must have been some faulty config of the xserver. Did that happen right after installation or after some upgrade?

It seems you solved it, just two links that might be useful in the future:
http://sidux.com/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=xserverxorg
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide

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