Comments on: Arch vs. Crux

By: gannggstaz

gannggstaz — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:08:39 +0000

Don’t, I don’t use archlinux but their site has an impressive collection of lightweight applications https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Applications it’s like kmandlas software page only with a GUI for the most part.

By: yangsayang

yangsayang — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:36:30 +0000

Do you have recommendation to easy self-compiling Linux manual / documentation for newbie like me?
Thank you.

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:35:50 +0000

Interesting post. I’ve played with just about every BSD and Linux distro but I have yet to try Crux a try. I may have to change that, as I do enjoy using minimalistic operating systems.

Looking through the documentation on Crux, the only program that I would use that might be daunting to install is Firefox, which has a bunch of dependencies. How do you go about installing FF?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:39:06 +0000

I’ll have to try termit and ROXTerm; I hadn’t heard of those yet.

I started out with xfce4′s Terminal and liked it quite a bit. At the time I thought it was fun because it could be undecorated completely, and do pseudotransparency. I moved to rxvt-unicode because it was lighter, and could do the same things in conjunction with Openbox.

I stick with Sakura now just because I like that it’s tabbable (is that a word?) and follows the GTK2 theme. I find it to be complimentary, really.

I’ll see if I can mess with the others you mentioned. I’m always on the hunt for new software.

By: CoarseSand

CoarseSand — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:13:03 +0000

Nah, we were really talking about you. And consider yourself flattered as this is one of two Linux blogs I actually keep in my RSS feed. You have some of the most interesting articles on low resource use systems every Arch user seems to love tinkering with.

Actually, this reminds me of another topic. I know you use sakura as your terminal, but what are your thoughts on the alternatives like Xfce4 Terminal, termit and my brand new favorite, ROXTerm? Sakura used a little less memory in my very brief tests, but CPU time use on ROXTerm and sakura are almost identical.