Lightweight Linux Distros for Acer Aspire One D257: Python, Web Browsing + Office Tasks

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Hello, I need a light distribution of Linux on weaker hardware - the Acer Aspire One D257 laptop: Processor: Intel Atom N570 Ram: 1 GB The laptop ...

safbot1st · Accepted Answer

Atom, it is not suitable for browsing the network. I recommend Puppy linux. Tahr version: https://linuxiarze.pl/download_puppy/

safbot1st · Accepted Answer

It would not give, because it's about the poor performance of these CPUs. It includes for HD movies and flash websites. The elektroda.pl forum in classic look is about everything.

Bednar57 wrote:
Slackware Linux with installed xfce or lxde environment

Puppy is also in Slacko version with a light environment.

linuks · Accepted Answer

try this http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/18.04.1/release/lubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-i386.iso greetings

safbot1st · Accepted Answer

@linuks Heavy is 1GB. I gave the lead on the OS in the order of 200MB.

linuks · Accepted Answer

And what is the size of the installation iso?
None. It is important how much the system needs resources to function.
The rage on this processor will not be there but it should work for purposes as the author wrote.
You can give the link to the installation iso several dozen MB but it does not matter. The system is to have a graphical environment, the most sensible one is LXDE.
greetings
It's best before the installation to see how it will go on live starting with the pen. It will be slower than the disk but will give an idea of what to choose.

linuks · Accepted Answer

LXDE. But that you want to play with slack? I do not recommend because you will lose time on configuration and the effect is not much better than when installing a cooker. I have seen some linuks in my life and I do not recommend slackware for home use.
Greetings.

_jta_ · Accepted Answer

It's TinyCore - I tried on T5710 (256MB RAM, 256MB flash as a disk), miserable - Firefox muli terribly, and light browsers (it's probably Midori) are not suitable for most of what is seen on the web - even to Wikipedia. But on something better (512MB RAM) it already works sensibly.

tos18 · Accepted Answer

It's best to try it yourself. Download live version of slackware and run. The start will be long because it is live, but later you will assess yourself whether it is right or not.

The full installation of slackware 14 is about 8 GB on the disk. I think it makes no sense to deplete - unless you put a server and you do not need a graphical environment.

danthe · Accepted Answer

Hello. Or maybe Damn Small Linux?

_jta_ · Accepted Answer

Without a graphical environment: I have a server on T5710 (256MB RAM / 256MB flash, this is also a very cut down Windows XP, but you can not have it with Linux). And with the graphic environment I used T5710 to control the apparatus, but it was exchanged for T5720 (512MB RAM / 512MB flash - I could install the C compiler and there was still a lot of space, and if you want to have Windows XP on it, it does not have to be so truncated ) - it turned out that the T5710 had a problem with monitors, graphics worked only with some. All this with Linux Slitaz - but unfortunately to this system Firefox is very outdated, and software management is more troublesome than for TinyCore - if I knew TinyCore earlier, I probably would not use Slitaz - although I certainly do not know: the server needed 'dnsmasq' in the newest version (older did not support anything necessary to work with other servers), I had to download and compile sources - I did not check if and how it could be done under TinyCore.

Anonymous · Answer

And if you extended the RAM up to 2 GB, would you like something? Even if not for the internet?

Anonymous · Answer

So nothing prevents you from installing Slackware? And which environment is lighter xfce or lxde?

Anonymous · Answer

I just wanted to learn some more difficult Linux, because in Ubuntu or Mincie, for example, all you need to do is press the button on and you have everything.

Anonymous · Answer

Thanks very much for the advice, I just launched Slack XFCE on my lap and it works very well. I will consider installing this system with the LXDE environment or some lighter linux.

_jta_ · Answer

Dell Latitude D600, Pentium M 1600MHz (63% speed N570), 1GiB RAM - this is the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 with the Gnome environment. Firefox can be used on this, but you can not open too many pages at once (a few, at most a dozen), because RAM is running out. But this is already outdated Linux, it could not be installed (except what is on the CD), because there are no packages on Ubuntu servers. It had LXDE, newer Ubuntu (eg 12/04, there are still updates). It is still a bit lighter Lubuntu, in it LXDE is default.

bicik4096 · Answer

PorteUS (Slackware base LXDE etc.), MX Linux (Debian stable base) PorteUS, how do you add the module with the latest Firefox, it's cool. However, on this Atom, I am not able to assess what the performance will be. It's best to have fisk (Firefox) with add-ons that block most of the loading objects on the website.

Gugi96 · Answer

Lubuntu is a light linux version

Baltramiejus · Answer

Hey, Try to install AntiX and you will see that you can still get some fire from the old equipment!