Re: fastest linux distro
On Sat 31 May 2014 at 09:31:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > What work has it done? It needs 2.5 GB of disk space and has two or
> > three WM's and a couple of file managers. Plus libreoffice. I think
> > AntiX is quite a nice distro but do you need all of this to play a
> > video?
>
> It's a bit more than just playing videos; it's a set of related tools
> for managing them, controlling playback remotely, etc. Not huge, and
> I'm sure I could create a massively cut-down system (is it possible to
> run VLC on top of X without a window manager??) and fit the same tasks
Yes ; all it needs is the line 'vlc' in ~/.xsession.
> into far less memory and a far less powerful CPU, but that would
> require a lot more fiddling.
I'm not an expert with video playback but I think throwing more RAM at a
machine with an inadequate CPU/video card combination generally gains
very little and isn't worth the fiddling.
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