Lightwieght OS... Who wins?

marc1024 · 6 Oct 2011 at 20:33

puppy linux

staylo · 13 Oct 2011 at 20:40

TinyCore Linux is quite an interesting lightweight distro, loading much of the OS (and extra application 'extensions') into RAM on bootup. Useful for use cases that rely on a consistent startup environment.

phill1978 · 21 Oct 2011 at 23:10

puppy linux

you can make it look visually impressive and everything loads faster than the rise on the mouse button after the click sound!

Cromulent · 22 Oct 2011 at 12:04

Linux From Scratch is the right choice as it gives you an in depth understanding of what you are doing as well.

FatRakoon · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:20

Magic on the Atari

Can give you a fully preemptive Multitaskign O/S including Desktop that will fit onto a 512K machine and still give you 200K to play with!

Now thats lightweight.

On a more serious note...

MiNT on the Atari.

Its fully unix compatible and will run ( albeit very badly ) on a 4MB Machine, but really needs 8MB at least. ( Being a ***** that I am, I have had this on a 1MB Machine but its simply not useful even for a masochist )

Ok ok.. PCs you mean?

ZipSlack is certainly small - runs on VERY OLD PCs

There comes a time however, when you have to weigh up the pros and cons and wonder why you need a lightweight O/S -0 given the practically give-away prices of PC hardware these days.

Jay794 · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:36

DOS? lol

Ubuntu is about as lightweight as anybody should need, any lighter and you're looking at a text based OS lol

d_brennen · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:41

Jay794 said:
DOS? lol

Ubuntu is about as lightweight as anybody should need, any lighter and you're looking at a text based OS lol

Ubuntu light?!

Cromulent · 23 Oct 2011 at 14:16

Jay794 said:
Ubuntu is about as lightweight as anybody should need, any lighter and you're looking at a text based OS lol

Nah you can get loads lighter than Ubuntu. You just have to use a different window manager like OpenBox rather than Gnome.

Radiation · 23 Oct 2011 at 15:50

Lubuntu looks good so far.

Jay794 · 23 Oct 2011 at 17:07

d_brennen said:
Ubuntu light?!

Compared to Windows it is

Hairybudda · 25 Oct 2011 at 01:47

Jay794 said:
Compared to Windows it is

Last time I checked a fresh Ubuntu boot used more resources than a fresh win7 boot!

Radiation · 25 Oct 2011 at 11:50

How do you think XP compares to Lubuntu?

VeNT · 4 Nov 2011 at 20:21

well on my laptop lubuntu
a)wipes the floor with XP on speed
b)has drivers for everything out of the box
c)works.

Radiation · 5 Nov 2011 at 11:54

Im sticking with lubuntu now, it has it's little differences that can be annoying at first but you can change things how you want nearly as easily as ubuntu.