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LIGHTWEIGHT LINUX DISTRO FOR NETBOOK PC

^ Fast boot in Moblin page Archived January 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Lightweight Linux distros tested on a single core 1GB RAM Eee PC 901 netbook.^ "Features of Light version of Linux4One".^ Archived May 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.^ a b Moblin FAQ Archived May 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.^ Manjaro Netbook Edition at SourceForge.While no public numbers measuring the install-base of these operating systems are available, Google Trends data on a handful of them indicate their relative popularity:

Lightweight kernel compiled for EeePCs only Layered filesystem - caches writes in RAM AntiX just uses a window manager (choice of icewm, jwm or fluxbox). xfce is one that I often see recommended. But you can make most distros lightweight by installing an appropriate desktop instead of the default one. (SSD degradation, I/O optimization, etc.) AntiX is the distro that specialises in old hardware. None (borrows components for various distributions )Ĭhoice of IceWM / OpenBox / Flwm with ROX-Filer / PcManFM / LxLauncher "Netbook User Experience" (based on Clutter)Īll Intel Atom processor netbooks and MID None (it is a distribution developed out of Maemo and Moblin) Intel Atom processor netbooks, Nokia ARM smartphones

Sam Geeraerts with sponsorship from the FSF Bodhi Linux Bodhi is a superfast, and lightweight distro that offers a very easy yet low-resource hungry desktop environment. Older computers are often slow and upgrading components such as RAM, CPU and hard drive can alleviate performance problems. I386, AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS, S390, armhf, s390x. Linux Mint Another Debian-based Linux distro built to be easy to use for beginners Zorin OS Lite Lightweight distro featuring the most beautiful XFCE-desktop environment out of the box.

Comparison Features DistributionĪpproximate Number of Pre-compiled Packages For instance, Nokia Maemo and Asus' customized Xandros both ship with Skype and Adobe Flash installed, and Ubuntu's Netbook Edition offers the option to do the same for OEMs. They tend to include a broad mix of VOIP and web-focused tools, including proprietary applications rarely seen installed by default by mainstream desktop distributions. Its a single core Intel Atom N450 system so thats the real bottleneck in it 2gb of ram and a WD Black 7200rpm HDD. All such distributions purport to be optimized for use with small, low-resolution displays. On a roll installing Linux distros so thought Id breath new life into the wifes netbook. There are special Linux distributions, called netbook distributions, for these machines.