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chromium48
February 6th, 2011, 09:02 PM
Hey! Recently, I got a cheap netbook with pretty decent specs (the Google CR-48). I installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix solely for the purpose of playing Minecraft on it. I have no other use for this computer. Sadly, Minecraft runs a bit slowly, too slow for me to enjoy the game.

I was wondering, is there a distribution of linux that would be perfect just to run Minecraft? I am okay with something without an interface, just command line based- it just needs to be able to run Minecraft (a java applet). My logic in this is that most of the processing power will go into the .jar applet and not the interface and all the other things a modern OS needs.

What do you think? Thanks so much in advanced.

firebird_1979
February 6th, 2011, 09:35 PM
You could turn off all the services you don't need on your netbook...
System>Preferences>Startup Applications

Also, instead of the default interface, you could go with fluxbox, or something lightweight like that, turn off desktop effects etc.
System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects

I do believe Ubuntu Netbook Remix is an excellent choice!

chromium48
February 6th, 2011, 09:54 PM
I've known of these things, but I seriously only want something JUST for Minecraft. Can you help me with that? I only want a command-line distribution that can run java applets.

wojox
February 6th, 2011, 10:00 PM
Download and burn the Minimal CD (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD).

At the prompt choose Cli install and then install Java.

chromium48
February 6th, 2011, 10:02 PM
Download and burn the Minimal CD (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD).

At the prompt choose Cli install and then install Java.
Awesome! Thanks a lot!