Five Lightweight Linux Distros For Your Old PC

By -

Five Lightweight Linux Distros
Summary: We bring you a list of 5 such distros that can run on the bare minimum of RAM space, and have other advantages to boot! 

 If you are suffering from a PC that is old and therefore has become unusably slow, then you are a victim of an OS that is taking take up more and more resources grinding you to a halt. The good news, however, is that one doesn’t need to throw one’s PC away to get access to the latest software. One can just install a lightweight Linux-based OS that lets the user have the latest web browser and office software, while running smooth as silk in as little as 256MB RAM.

Puppy Linux

This is the smallest Linux distro at just 132MB download. The distro loads itself entirely into RAM on bootup, so is incredibly quick and responsive. However, if one wishes to use a modern browser, one would need 256MB. This is a truly portable distro, allowing the user to save documents to the same USB drive it boots from. The price one has to pay, however, is that OS seems resolutely old-school. The icons and desktop look like something from the 90s.

Peppermint OS Two

The OS is based on Lubuntu, which in turn was based on Ubuntu. The distro makes use of the LXDE desktop environment, but has been built keeping the cloud computing conundrum in mind. Inspite of the fact that the developers recommend one have at least 192MB RAM - 64MB more than the other distros here.

Macpup 528

This is a great choice for those who think that the Puppy Linux is too retro-ugly. The distro is based on Puppy Linux, so has the same big advantage - it runs in RAM so is incredibly fast and responsive. The cool thing however is that it has an aesthetic appeal. The window manager is Enlightenment, which is arguably the best-looking Linux window manager of all. There are even transparency effects and a fancy animated dock at the bottom for your programs.

Crunchbang Linux 10

Based on the Debian project, this distro uses the Openbox window manager. This in turn is one of the least resource-heavy there is, helping the OS boot in just over 30 seconds. Though it can run on 128MB of RAM, 256MB is recommended as well.

Lubuntu 11.10

Another distro that makes use of the lightweight LXDE desktop environment, this distro is even lighter than Xubuntu, which in recent versions has recommended you have at least 512MB RAM. Lubuntu, on the other hand, can run in 128MB RAM, but we'd recommend at least 256MB. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Hacker steals data of millions of Bulgarians, emails it to local media

By -
Image
  Source of the data breach appears to be the country's National Revenue Agency A mysterious hacker has stolen the personal details of millions of Bulgarians and has emailed download links to the stolen data to local news publications. The data's origin is believed to be the country's National Revenue Agency (NRA), a department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance. In a  message posted on its website  on Monday, the NRA said it was working with the Ministry of the Interior and the State Agency for National Security (SANS) to investigate the hack. "We are currently verifying whether the data is real," said the NRA. Hours after this article's publication, the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior  confirmed the hack . HACKER STOLE 110 DATABASES, LEAKED 57 According to reports from local media [ 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 ], who received part of the data, the hacker said they stole the personal details of over five million Bulgarians, of the country's total ...
Read more

​Linux totally dominates supercomputers

By -
Image
It finally happened. Today, all 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux. Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list . Today it finally happened:  All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers are running Linux . The last two non-Linux systems, a pair of Chinese IBM POWER computers running AIX, dropped off the  November 2017 TOP500 Supercomputer list . Overall, China now leads the supercomputing race with 202 computers to the US' 144. China also leads the US in aggregate performance. China's supercomputers represent 35.4 percent of the Top500's flops, while the US trails with 29.6 percent. With an anti-science regime in charge of the government, America will only continue to see its technological lead decline. When the  first Top500 supercomputer list was compiled in June 1993 , Linux was barely more than a toy. It hadn't even adopted Tux as its masc...
Read more

Microsoft tries to stem its self-made collaboration-tool confusion

By -
Image
Microsoft is using this week's Ignite conference to try to help clarify its collaboration-tool strategy. Here's how SharePoint, Teams and Yammer figure in the mix. Choice is good. But too much choice, especially when it comes to collaboration tools, has been a problem for Microsoft. This isn't news to customers, partners or Microsoft execs themselves. But at the company's Ignite IT Pro conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft execs took a step to try to clarify the company's strategy and messaging in this area. Microsoft Office 365 Marketing chief Ron Markezich kicked off the conference this week with a slide entitled "Microsoft 365 Teamwork: Where to Start a Conversation." That slide attempts to do what  Microsoft initially attempted with a 60-plus-page whitepaper : Clarify which collaboration tools customers should use when. The slide, which features SharePoint -- and its files, sites and content storage at the center -- is broken down into t...
Read more