By: gan17
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522594">Ford Prefect</a>. <blockquote>So my experience is that it is not worth it to...
View ArticleBy: gan17
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522638">lucas_maximus</a>. My thoughts initially, but I suppose someone looking for a...
View ArticleBy: Yanni Depp
Gentoo can be quite difficult to install: it takes a steady hand, strong familiarity with underlying Unix concepts, and the time it takes to compile everything. However, if you only install what you...
View ArticleBy: lucas_maximus
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522647">gan17</a>. TBH if you are going to go to this amount of effort you already know...
View ArticleBy: cb88
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522564">uggla</a>. DSL and Tinycore have different goals though... I don't think tiny core...
View ArticleBy: djohnston
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522684">cb88</a>. "The reviews all cover current releases (except for Lubuntu, which is...
View ArticleBy: kateline
Puppy — megacool, worth a look by anybody Vector — anybody use this? DSL — obsolete, why cover it? Lubuntu — hardly a lightweight, at least on my system. But I like the idea in the article that it is...
View ArticleBy: Soulbender
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522638">lucas_maximus</a>. Probably because BSD is not Linux. Not really a good reason but...
View ArticleBy: awfullyquiet
I have used Puppy to restore literally hundreds of computers over the last decade or so. It is flexible and versatile, and improves with every version. There has recently been a step back from really...
View ArticleBy: bassbeast
In reply to cb88. Uhhh…and wouldn’t it be kinda , you know, unsafe to run a distro that hasn’t had a single update in 4 years? Frankly I don’t think I’d trust ANY OS that hadn’t had so much as a single...
View ArticleBy: bassbeast
In reply to zima. The problem I’ve found with any of those “old systems”, not talking about some 486 that someone found in an attic but what you’d normally find, those P3s and P4s that seem to be...
View ArticleBy: another_sam
Just moved from Ubuntu to Lubuntu using <a href="http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelubuntu" rel="nofollow">http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelubuntu</a> on yesterday and so far I like...
View ArticleBy: zima
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522821">bassbeast</a>. When all the overall resources and energy consumption are taken...
View ArticleBy: rohan_p
I have to admit I was a bit disappointed with Lubuntu. Didn’t feel that lighgweight at all. Probably my favourite lightweight distro I’ve used recently was CrunchBang (I wrote a short review of it for...
View ArticleBy: zima
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/26087/four-lightweight-distros-compared/#comment-522630">JuEeHa</a>. Your 64 MiB were on the low side even in the times of that Pentium III...
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