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View Poll Results: Lightweight Distribution of the Year
Equally, NetBSD, or some old version of Slackware, or the latest, but select minimalist (maybe only command-line) package sets you want from the very short one-page list you can do that. I'd probably never even consider anything else unless (apart from various software requirements) meeting similar pre-1995 style including based on 1970s hacker culture before RMS could no longer convince others at a certain college/university lab to stop using passwords.
light without Miyo-linux is a different universe.
The man (vuu-do as well) has gone to such extremes to make it light and still extremely functional that it is an injustice to mention any others without miyo.
I recently tried Alpine Linux (3.7 & 3.8) .... it is so lightweight it is barely linux like, but it runs very well.
My RAM use with openbox running was as much as some of the systems on the list only on console.
The secret is called musl
The kernel was 4.9.. on 3.7 and it is 4.14 on 3.8
You can take a nearly useless old pc and make it into a reliable file server for your home or office.
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