It is an old Toshiba, intel pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz, 2BG RAM. The previous owner installed Windows 7 on it. It's ok but I want to try a lightweight and small Linux based OS. It will be used primarily for connecting to Amazon AWS via SSH, and SFTP client and a browser, and most likely Atom editor. That's probably be all.
-
Are you new to linux? – wb9688 Jan 13 '16 at 6:20
-
Yes I am new to Linux. – Marina Dunst Jan 13 '16 at 16:06
-
You should probably list clearly the requirements. Ideally I wish people were listing the size of Operating Systems. – William Jan 14 '16 at 3:00
-
The requirements are in the description - SFTP client and a browser, and most likely Atom editor. If I knew what size OS are fast and lightweight I wouldn't be asking this question. – Marina Dunst Jan 14 '16 at 17:06
-
Actually, with your hardware, you don't really need a lightweight and small Linux distribution. The distributions in this category - such as Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux etc. - are targeted towards 486 and Pentium (the original Pentium, from 1990) machines as a minimum, with 16/32 MB RAM or so. Of course they would also work on your system. – einpoklum Sep 14 '16 at 16:10
I recommend using Lubuntu, because it's very easy to use and it's lightweight. It ran fine on my Asus EEE PC 701 with a 800 MHz processor and 512 MB RAM...
-
I was reading reviews on various distroes and Lubuntu was in top 3, but it also said - "32 bit ISO require your CPU to have Physical Address Extensions, or PAE. “PAE is provided by Intel Pentium Pro and above CPUs, including all later Pentium-series processors (except most 400 MHz-bus versions of the Pentium M)." Idk if it applies to me. – Marina Dunst Jan 13 '16 at 20:01
-
1
-
-
@einpoklun: True, Damn Small Linux is much smaller, but these days I'm just using Debian… – wb9688 Sep 14 '16 at 20:28
Based on your knowledge and your flavour there are various distributions for your need:
- Gentoo Linux (maybe with a build host - personal I used this on a 256MB 800 MHz embedded Box and it runs very, very smooth)
- ArchLinux
- Alpine
- Slack
- DSL
- ...
For better recommendations it's real important, that you tell us something about yourself: how big is your knowledge, how many time do you have, how complicated is ok, etc etc
-
-
@Marged as I say - it's real depending on her knowledge and preferences. (Also you can use a busybox with direct use of the framebuffer for the browser - but I fear that will not real her preference ;)) Slitaz will also be a great recommendation. – g4s3 Jan 15 '16 at 5:33
-
