which linux disties are the tinies ones?

[dhubs]

Good morning dear friends,

Well there are a lot distributions out there.

lets see for example: well some months ago the

a. new release of damnedSmallLinux
b. debian bookworum
c. others more

A great variety of Linux distributions are available. A very nice and a helpful trait. But what options do we have - for example to be tailored for users who wish to run Linux on dated hardware and systems with a very small storage space.

Which systems are recommended here?

look forward

 

[kc1di]

One possibility is Puppy Linux which can be run completely from usb or DVD.
It would be helpful to know just how much ram and how much storage your talking about.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

But what options do we have

Choices are:
1.) to be distro hooper until you find a fit for you
2.) do careful research over a day about which one to choose and stick with for years to come

I can't imagine 1st option, it's counter productive for my taste and I'm lazy to explore.

 

[MikeRocor]

Well, what exactly do you mean by "dated hardware" and "systems with a very small storage space"?

In a way, I' know I'll kick myself for saying it because I absolutely -hate- it when some idiot reviewer goes on about how great Tiny Core is for resurrecting ancient hardware. I hate it because, invariably, that's the only thing, or the only -positive- thing they say about it. "Brings new life to your aging kit." They are, however, correct in that it -will- indeed make your system's old bones feel young again. I just hate that they're too lazy to maybe also try it on modern hardware and watch it "rejuvenate" that, too. "Well, I ran it in a VM for twenty minutes..."

With Tiny Core, you will have to spend a bit of time learning how to use it. At least for me, that was time well spent.

Also remember that, if your hardware is really "dated", no OS is going to get you, for instance, a decent web browser that actually works well.

For storage space, I've booted from a 512 MB USB stick and not felt cramped although, my current 4 TB HD gives me room to store pretty much every file I've ever had.

Old Windows 98 boxes... it worked, although I did eventually shotcan those machines. Even I have my limits.

 

[Brickwizard]

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if you have a 32 bit machine then your choices are limited, if it's a single core machine you have fewer options, the word on the ground is 32 bit will lose Linux support sometime towards the end of this year

 

[KGIII]

You've been here long enough to know that we need to know more information than that to offer you a reasonable answer.

What is this hardware? What are the specs?

 

[dhubs]

good day dear KGill, good day daer @Brickwizard hello dear all,


sorry - have been awk - for some hours now...

You've been here long enough to know that we need to know more information than that to offer you a reasonable answer.

What is this hardware? What are the specs?

Sorry for the delay - its a Thinkpad T 220 with i3 and 4 Gigs


Thank you also dear MikeRocor for your input:

Well, what exactly do you mean by "dated hardware" and "systems with a very small storage space"?

In a way, I' know I'll kick myself for saying it because I absolutely -hate- it when some idiot reviewer goes on about how great Tiny Core is for resurrecting ancient hardware. I hate it because, invariably, that's the only thing, or the only -positive- thing they say about it. "Brings new life to your aging kit." They are, however, correct in that it -will- indeed make your system's old bones feel young again. I just hate that they're too lazy to maybe also try it on modern hardware and watch it "rejuvenate" that, too. "Well, I ran it in a VM for twenty minutes..."

and - as allway - many thanks dear @Brickwizard

if you have a 32 bit machine then your choices are limited, if it's a single core machine you have fewer options, the word on the ground is 32 bit will lose Linux support sometime towards the end of this year

i really love the Thinkpad - okay they are old but solid and i love them for their bulletproof build quality, repairability, and the awesome keyboard.




Thank you dear Kc1DI

One possibility is Puppy Linux which can be run completely from usb or DVD.
It would be helpful to know just how much ram and how much storage your talking about.

thanks dear Caffeineaddict - for your ideas.

Choices are:

1.) to be distro hooper until you find a fit for you
2.) do careful research over a day about which one to choose and stick with for years to come

some leightweihgt arch-distros may be an idea..

your idea is very good:
"do careful research over a day about which one to choose and stick with for years to come"

thats great.

greetings

 

[CaffeineAddict]

your idea is very good:
"do careful research over a day about which one to choose and stick with for years to come"

Thanks, that's what lead me to choose Debian, the following page was all I needed to hear:

Debian -- Reasons to use Debian

www.debian.org

Other distros likely have similar pages, so examine them and decide for yourself, don't be influenced by uproars on various online boards, 1000 people = 1000 opinions = 0 certainty.

 

[dos2unix]

You could always go for a IoT release.

Fedora IoT

Download the latest version of Fedora IoT Edition for your architecture here.

fedoraproject.org

 

[dhubs]

good day dear CaffeinAddict and Dos2Unix
thanks for your continued support - your great ideas and the sharing of your experience.
thats what i love here in the forums.

AWESOME - thank you all - so much.

greetings

 

[spacebanana]

Good morning dear friends,

Well there are a lot distributions out there.

lets see for example: well some months ago the

a. new release of damnedSmallLinux
b. debian bookworum
c. others more

A great variety of Linux distributions are available. A very nice and a helpful trait. But what options do we have - for example to be tailored for users who wish to run Linux on dated hardware and systems with a very small storage space.

Which systems are recommended here?

look forward

I run Alpine Linux so I'm biased of course but Alpine is really small. No Systemd, no GNU, no bash (out of the box), musl instead of glibc, doas instead of sudo. The package manager is also designed with resource efficiency in mind and your system will occupy little space even after you have all your programs installed.