Lightweight Distribution of the Year

There other L/W distros that I like, but AntiX is what I always return to.

Well,

I have to give this one to Tiny Core Linux.

While I haven't had an opportunity to play with it recently, but I have had to use it in the past, and for "Lightweight", I have yet to see anything come close; 8MB to get it running, 12MB if you want a desktop.

How much more lightweight can you get?

HTH.

antiX of course.

antix, its lightweight, highly configurable and extremely stable.

Originally Posted by dolphin_oracle antiX of course.

Agreed there DO. :-)

Puppy Linux, hands down. And I do run it on a P4 with 1 GB RAM.....

Though AntiX comes a close second.....!


Mike.

Definitely antix since it can be used on older computers AND it is no memory hog. At least you get to customize it with the window manager you want if you need even less memory usage.

Raspbian?

I mistakenly voted for ArchBang, because I confused it with CrunchBang (BunsenLabs, now).

I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu at all,in fact I don't use it unless I am required to, but in this particular case I found lubuntu the best distro I tried for an old PC with a 32 bits processor.

Q4OS using Trinity should be added as well.

Originally Posted by damonh I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu at all,in fact I don't use it unless I am required to, but in this particular case I found lubuntu the best distro I tried for an old PC with a 32 bits processor.

I don't understand it, but when I resuscitated my netbook, Lubuntu was the first distro I put on it - and it was the worst for performance. Debian and Slackware [both with LXDE] were way better. Lubuntu just felt bloated to me.

Originally Posted by rowo Q4OS using Trinity should be added as well.

Agreed.

Q4OS has been added.

--jeremy

Originally Posted by jeremy Q4OS has been added. --jeremy

Thanks.