Guys, i dont mean to sound like an idiot here, or moan, thanks for the input already, but can some you read the 1st post, Its purely a thread to see how lightweight the lightweight os' are, not just naming the desktop managers or just naming operating systems as most of us know pretty much all of them, but not everyone has had a chance to run them to see how they run and who they use up or save on system resources, which was the reason i was asking for screen shots etc, not just for me but anyone that was thinking of sunning something lighter on there system too.
I'm not trolling but I think the question is ill posed? maybe:
"Lightweight Linux Distribution, Who wins?"
Obviously people mistaking WM's to Linux distributions is very normal. That's just it! The main difference is the WM.
You have mentioned one of the smallest distributions "SliTaz". You don't say what you want it for? Do you want it to run on Raspberry Pie? or do you want to game on it? server? what server? You should understand that even a 30mb footprint may contain some bug somewhere that will occupy the processor for longer periods of time then a 600mb distribution and therefore cost you more in performance.
You say "post some shots of your system recourses" so clearly your in some Window Manager, therefore I must rethink your question again. Clearly your running "X" ontop of which your running a "WM" so you have actually already slipped into the realm of bloated Linux.
maybe you mean:
"Lightweight Windows Manager, Who wins?"
Otherwise if your running neither I expect you to say post your "top" list or something.
A Linux distribution will probably run with different efficiency depending on the architecture it is running on and the compilation options used to compile the kernel, drivers and software.
When people reply with Window Managers, that's just it usually it is the most cumbrous bit of software running on a Linux distribution.
Pick-up any distribution, i.e. Ubuntu (Bloated), strip of all the components you will have a shell. Now start with naked gentoo or arch, you should find that they will run with negligible performance gains, maybe gentoo has a slight advantage here if configured for your particular processor but even then it is very negligible performance gains (just think if the time required to compile the bloody source
). Unless there are some particular kernel tweaks *most* processes will run with negligible performance gains/loss.
Otherwise put your mind to rest, relax and go kickoff with LFS why don't you and put together you very own distro.
