Headless_Linux_Debian

[#1]

I'm looking for a Basic Distro server/headless just to sit for testing stuff, I like Ubuntu/Debian because thats what I learned on so it just makes more sense for me to remember 1 set of commands across the Distros I use like Linux Mint and Rasbian Jessie Lite etc, But the rpi is Arm based and dosen't run a good portion of stuff well and in some cases just not all all. OpenBSD is great but again it's frustraiting command wise from a terminal point of view. I just want something very basic out the box like Rasbian Jessie Lite with a bit more oomph!

So with that said, can anybody suggest a solution please.

[#2]

Ubuntu Server or Debian minimal would seem the obvious choices

[#3]

I have a 6 Node Pi Cluster running Arch Linux and as it's Linux there no real difference on the CLI either. It uses pacman for maintenance and a :

sudo pacman -Syu

Does a full system upgrade (including kernel rebuild if provided). So it might be worth a look and the Wiki is great with everything you need to know if you're needing help on a topic.

[#4]

I'll have a look at that thanks.

I've only got a dual-core pentium cpu 2gb with 3gb ram and mdmwebkit is skewing some of my results by uing 50/80% cpu. I guess I could disable xserver etc... but then I would need to strip out all the other stuff not needed as well.

I was using Ubuntu desktop a while back but I was put off by all the data gathering nonsense, but I guess the server version doesn't have any of that.

[#5]

Raspbian on a Pi runs perfectly OK - provided that you don't start a GUI.

I find that ssh works fine provided you don't start X.

[#6]

@Anonymous  the directory structure isn't the same as far as I am aware ?

[#7]

@VileReynard Did you even read my post ?

[#8]

Yes - perhaps I misunderstood the problem?

A 2GB PC would have no trouble running a Pi.

[#9]

Rasbian Jessie Lite Is headless

[#10]

Not entirely sure what you're asking... When you say you want more oomph. Are you talking about the Pi needing more grunt, or the distro you're using need more pre-packaged software or something? Or are you trying to build your own packages on a Pentium system (which you mentioned in the other post) and it needs more grunt?

[#11]

What I am saying is I have an Rpi B 1st edition 256k - rpi B 512k and a B+  Yes they run headless but try running netperf as an example using apt-get. I have had a lot of programs in the past just not work with arm. So I need to build something that just sits in the corner intel based that will do a better job with the printer when called to for example.

[#12]

Have you enabled all the repos for stuff that is contributed and non-free in the sources.list file?

https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

If you don't add contributed and non-free, it provides only what the default Debian repositories will hold. And it's possible that netperf hasn't been ported over yet.

In fact; a search for netperf: https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=arm&keywords=netperf shows that it's not found on arm.

But it is found in arm64: https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=arm64&keywords=netperf in the "non-free" repo.

It's also in armel: https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=armel&keywords=netperf non-free.

And armhf: https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=armhf&keywords=netperf non-free.

[#13]

Yeah it's just one example, I guess I'll try the Ubuntu server on this old pentium pc, I'm not in favour of buying a 64 bit rpi 3 as I've already got 3...

[#14]

The bigger distros will have more ported software. Simply because of either more users or an automated system of porting packages over.

@Anonymous 's option to switch to the arm version of Arch is probably the best.

https://archlinuxarm.org/packages

Even that has netperf on original arm. Whereas if you search Ubuntu packages, they only have it for "amd64 arm64 armhf i386 powerpc ppc64el" on 16.10.

[#15]

A basic Arch install is anorexic when it come to weight and of course runs on Intel or Arm, your tools can be found using :

$ sudo pacman -Ss netperf
community/netperf 2.7.0-2
    Benchmarking tool for many different types of networking

Then installed using :

sudo pacman -S netperf

As for the file system, it may be slightly different but I wouldn't have thought to the extent of making it unusable.

I have various Arch installs, one running PostgreSQL and another used for software building via the CLI as I edit the code on the Mac. The PostgreSQL server can handle my 24 SQL updates every .25 of a second and it accrues 1.09% load factor while doing it! 

Granted the hardware's a lot to do with it but still, if it's grunt you're after...