Light distros

What's the best and lightest distro I can put on one of these?

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The window manager or desktop environment is more important than the distro itself. Look at this page, and Google each de/wm to see if you could stand using it. Go with the lightest that doesn't give your eyes cancer, and find a distro that comes with it pre-installed if you're lazy. Otherwise, install it on top of something light like Arch or Ubuntu Server.
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Lubuntu with lighter WM.

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Not a Linux distro but OpenBSD's the best choice.

that is of course assuming you can get wifi and shit working

I don't get why everybody acts like it's so hard, it takes mere seconds to get Wi-Fi working

not when you don't have a fucking connection to download the required drivers. wifi is a standard feature with nearly universal oob support, the fact that bsd doesn't have that feature is why it's shit

Ubuntu Gnome

>he doesn't install his OS with an Ethernet cable plugged in
It's just common sense, never assume wireless firmware will be included regardless of OS. And it's not like you need to download the firmware every time you want to use the Wi-Fi and are stuck in some catch 22, you do it once after the install is completed and you're done.

yeah because everyone should have to pull a lan cable out of their ass and go sit by the modem/router while installing

face it, it's a serious oversight and it needs to be addressed for bsd to be taken seriously in the desktop market

that being said, lumina looks very intriguing

Yeah because you can't just unplug your desktop for 10 minutes or use one you keep free for such purposes. Hell I can go sit in my bed and install over Ethernet, I've got a cable waiting for laptops.

well then you're atypical and are foolish if you expect the majority to be like you

I'm foolish for expecting the majority is capable of unplugging an Ethernet cable and plugging it in to a different device?

I should also point out that they don't care if you use it or not, it's for the people who want to. There's no push for the year of the OpenBSD desktop or anything of the sort.

Holy shit I had one of the earlier models. Just give up, even xp barely runs smooth on those.

no, you're foolish for thinking that everyone has at least one wired connection. wifi is bast cable management money can buy

Kind of off topic, best distro for a dell optiplex (Intel Pentium 4, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd)?

I never thought such a thing. You're on Sup Forums, I expect you to have at least one desktop computer. And since it's a desktop, I expect it to be connected over Ethernet. This is in no way foolish. I'm not talking about what I expect out of an every day person, I'm talking about what I expect out of somebody on a technology enthusiast board.

Xubuntu / lubuntu

>not one mention of alpine
Shame on you Sup Forums

>alpine
The email client?

xubuntu or mate

>mate 42mb

wtf?? why aren't we funding this.jpeg

Damn small Linux. Yes, that's the distro name.

alpinelinux.org/

Arch or manjaro with xfce should be pretty darn light.

>implying desktops don't come with wifi standard
>implying desktops are all set up withing cables reach of a modem/router
face it bruh, wifi is the standard

Most lightweight netbooks don't have ethernet.

Not even a fucking screenshot. I've been using Gnu/Linux since 2004 and I've never heard of this edgy shit. Sorry.

Chromebooks don't have RJ-45 ports

>wifi is the standard
For normies. Like I said, you're on a technology board.

I've never seen a netbook without one. I even used Ethernet to install OpenBSD on my UMPC, given that one was with the UMPC's dock.

Crux

you're living in the past bruh

Where did I say anything about a Chromebook?

No I'm not. Wireless will always be inferior.

Correct

>edgy
You seem butthurt for some reason

keep telling yourself that, but yours is the mentality that's holding bsd back, times change, adapt or become irrelevant

Nowadays every underage kiddo and his dog have their own Linux Distro. I'm fucking tired of hearing of another clone of a clone of a clone of a fork.

The flaw in your logic is you think OpenBSD's trying to be used everywhere. It's not. It's just there for whoever wants it.

hey man, you're the one who rec'd it like it was relevant

Alpine is lining up to be the standard for Docker containers given how light weight it is. I wouldn't exactly call that obscure or unpopular. Do you live under a fucking rock?

Hey man, I never said OpenBSD was sooper relevant, I just that it'll run very well on a netbook.

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Everyone uses boot2docker as far as I know. I've never even heard of alpine

Boot2docker is for running containers, not being the container OS.

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What do you plan on doing with it? I'm currently running Alpine Linux on my P4 as a web and Sambe server.

Arch with Ratpoison WM. No wasted screen space, no fiddling with the sucky touchpad on a netbook.

I guess any tiling WM without gaps would do the trick

>not listing arch linux

There was an article how developer from arch said that arch was farthest thing from being a light distro, was that true or just trolling?

The real problem is if he's even asking this question, he would probably have trouble installing Arch, as well as OpenBSD and all the other bullshit people have been mentioning.
He should get Lubuntu and install i3 or something if it's still too slow.

>have trouble installing OpenBSD
As long as you can read you can install OpenBSD. It takes 10 or 15 minutes when you've barely got a clue, 3-5 minutes once you know what you're doing

I have an HP Mini with LXLE on it. Broadcom WiFi worked out-of-the-box.

Probably a seed box.

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Any distro should work fine. Debian and Ubuntu Server are so good choices. Just make sure you use the Debian netinstall to have a minimal number of stuff installed.

>he actually uses the gnu/linux or as I prefer to call it Gnu + linux meme

you can install vindos ex pee, best operateen system in the vorld

>I've got a cable waiting for laptops

It's waiting to mate with the laptop!

lolbuntu
memebuntu
kekbuntu

got one of these laying around

you fail to recognize different use cases and factor in normie computers. in the future all laptops won't have an RJ45 and you'll have to get used to it

If it can't run on any machine the way Windows can, it should NOT EXIST

>Arch
>Arch
When did the "Arch is lightweight" meme start?

Gentoo

Slitaz

It's not a meme, Arch with xfce will run using only 350mb of ram.

your precious xubuntu probably uses at least 800mb with all of ubuntus useless bloat running in the background.

Ok, thanks senpai

Windows 10

This just build your own kernel with the minimum u need

I'd try out Slitaz, Alpine, Tiny Core, LinuxBBQ or (my personal favorite)... *BSD!
Small linux distros that dont include all the bells and whistles in their base system will be fine for old hardware. Especially when dealing with small amount of storage and/or ram. But it may not even run faster than gentoo or arch despite their smaller size, i think... ^^"

Something with windowmaker

if it has a quad atom with 2GB of ram then install win 10 enerprise

This

Openbsd
skinwalker.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/openbsd-eeepc/

I'm well aware.

This is absolutely terrible logic.