Looking for the slimmest linux server

[star_weaver]

Looking for a linux server that uses the least amount of resources and comes with only the bare minimum to get things started.

It's only going to have 1 job and that's to run minecraft and a control panel for it, everything else can go in the bin

[MrMcMuffinJr]

run minecraft as in a minecraft sever?

 

[star_weaver]

1 hour ago, MrMcMuffinJr said:

run minecraft as in a minecraft sever?

 

Yes

[Guest]

Arch would be your best bet if you can set it up. It's only as big and heavy as you make it. Otherwise I would probably go for fedora or centos minimal.

[Sauron]

The "slimmest" would be something so unwieldy it wouldn't be worth the small performance gain, something like linux from scratch.

 

What you probably mean is something without a desktop environment which at the end of the day is the one thing that impacts your baseline resource usage the most. Ubuntu server, debian, centos minimal would all fit that description. You can try Arch or Gentoo if you want more control over what exactly is installed but for a server that you may want to set and forget it's probably not a great idea.

[TorC]

Hiawatha

[innac]

15 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

Arch would be your best bet if you can set it up. It's only as big and heavy as you make it. Otherwise I would probably go for fedora or centos minimal.

In my opinion, arch linux is not what you want for a server. While it is slim, it is rolling release, which means that it gets the latest packages. While this seems good, it often comes at the cost of stability which you want for a minecraft server. Personally, i'd use debian. If you are willing to give up a desktop environment, that will save even more ram, but because you want the control panel, i'd use debian+xfce4. That will use very little ram and be rock solid stable.

[chronikum]

Use debian. The os doesn’t really matter that much - minecraft servers don’t have the best performance. I’d also recommend using papermc then. You can make way more impact by choosing the right minecraft server software.