I need a small distro to put on an Acer Chromebook 15
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I need a small distro to put on an Acer Chromebook 15
This thing has only 16GB ssd internal storage so I'm looking for something very slim. I would also prefer if it has an xfce version and a graphical package manager to install additional software.
This thing has only 16GB ssd internal storage so I'm looking for something very slim. I would also prefer if it has an xfce version and a graphical package manager to install additional software.
Any ideas?
I would do a search at DISTROWATCH. There are several light to very light distros that might serve you well.
I found this guide to installing Linux on an Acer Chromebook 15. I don't own a Chromebook, and can't personally vouch for the accuracy of this tutorial. But I am providing the link, with no guarantee, in the hopes it will at least point you in the right direction.
Thanks for the replies thus far. I've already got the BIOS installed and have tried a couple distros(Antergos, Ubuntu, Bodhi). The problem is after installing them I'm left with ~10GB free space. It's not a huge deal to be honest as I can easily expand the storage with an SD card, but still I'd like to have an absolute bare minimum install with the only requirements being Xfce + a graphical package manager.
I did try a search on distrowatch but I tend to get results that are just a list of popular distros that I already know about. I am interested in antix and will check the others mentioned here.
Another option is to do a minimal/netinstall of Ubuntu or Debian, and then install Xfce and whatever else you need.
CorePlus or TinyCore is even smaller, but a minimal install of Debian is hard to beat. It also makes the entire Debian software ecosystem available, which can be a hue advantage.
My old laptop is a P3-1GHz and at the time had 140mb RAM (yes, that's correct, if weird... some on the board, some in a slot, dumbest arrangement ever). Installed Puppy (Wary v5.5) which uses JWM, and it ran like the wind. I don't know if there's a Puppy with Xfce, but probably any Puppy would be light enough, and they're all pretty small as they go. This one was something like 200mb on disk.
Oh! this is more recent. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111885
if the download link doesn't work, copy and paste rather than click. I can't get it to play nice here as a direct link; forum keeps deleting part of it.
Last edited by Reziac; 02-15-2019 at 06:39 PM.
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I would second that you can’t go wrong with a minimal install of Debian. You can install xfce and whatever other programs you want. Crazy to think that 16Gb is small these days lol.
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