Lightweight Linux distros

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Lightweight Linux distros

Unread post by thr » Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:38 am

Just finished writing a list of 50+ lightweight Linux distros. Included LinuxBBQ in our special bonus list https://thishosting.rocks/best-lightwei ... distros/2/

I'm curious as to what you are using on your old hardware other than your baked Linux?


Hope this is the right category.

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Re: Lightweight Linux distros

Unread post by darry1966 » Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:26 am

Surprised no Devuan or 4MLinux.
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Re: Lightweight Linux distros

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:37 pm

If not a BBQ spin than just plain old Debian. But you can make every distro "light". Just use the minimalist tools from the BBQ philosophy. You can make Ubuntu or Fedora pretty lightweight using a netinstall route.

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Re: Lightweight Linux distros

Unread post by franksinistra » Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:41 pm

^ 100% what he said.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:33 pm

yeah, those are OoTB lightweight, as in #! RIP useful right away I suppose.
yeah which is more or less debian stable these days
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Re: Lightweight Linux distros

Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:11 am

thanks for the link.
i never really thought #! was lightweight, maybe design wise it looked light, but in terms of memory usage it was as heavy as the default distribution it ran on.
I'd probably take Arch as a lightweight base (by default it is). An OOTB solution other than my BBQ roast would be AntiX.
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Re: Lightweight Linux distros

Unread post by Nili » Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:18 am

For quite some time i'm positioned with Devuan i686 (netinst bare-metal) i i have tweaked it lots of deep or dirty let say.
I didn't get close on pid's tweaks but managed to made 21MB on X.

Other distro i usually recommend to the interested ones:
MX-16, AntiX, Alpine Linux, Void, LinuxBBQ, BunsenLabs or Devuan (netinst) / Debian (netinst).

The latter has ruined my mind a bit.
Jessie had (270 MB) ISO now Stretch is (375 MB) 100 MB more means more bloated into netinst. If it continues with this rhythm, I believe it will come 1GB one day.

Alpine Linux or Void Linux are my next target but i'm too busy with work that does not leave me much time available.
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