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With all the distros out there, I'm not up to date on which does what. I have an old Atom D2500 box that I want to get going. It's currently running CentOS8 but that lineage is terminated. So I've been researching options and tried Puppy OS, which can't even install from the ISO image. Oh well.

Anybody have any recommendations? I'm looking for small, lightweight, where I can install modern Ruby, gems, etc.

Any insight appreciated. Cheers.

AdminBee
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    RHEL 8 has been free for private use for months now. Upgrading to it is trivial. Also, there are multiple RHEL8 clones, e.g. AlmaLinux. – Artem S. Tashkinov Nov 14 '21 at 19:38
  • @ArtemS.Tashkinov Upgrading isn't the issue. It's a dormant box. Want to move to something I can get lightweight and affording modern `packages` and `gems`, including `Ruby 3.x`. No GUI, just basic footprint plus my chosen packages. I'm not versed in these `distros` for things like `Atom` boxes. `Alma` looks promising, much along the lines of `CentOS8`. Cheers – Rich_F Nov 15 '21 at 01:46
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    If you are looking for a lightweight distro, try Alpine or KISS Linux. "Lightweight" is not for beginners though - it requires knowledge of command line and advanced knowledge of (GNU/)Linux. – Vilinkameni Nov 15 '21 at 10:47
  • +1 for `Alpine` linux. – annahri Nov 15 '21 at 13:04
  • Alpine it is. Cheers – Rich_F Nov 15 '21 at 18:17

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