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Questions tagged [lightweight]

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Lightest way to run GUI applications in Linux?

I realized I can use a window manager without a desktop environment and don't lose any functionality I care about. Applications still work fine, I can still arrange application windows as I please. This pretty much eliminates the need for…
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Suggested setup for an ultra-lightweight text-based programming environment in linux

I am looking for suggestions for a setup for my particular needs. I haven't done much linux since college and want to get back into it as a hobby. I have some not-too-powerful hardware (512 MB ram, single core). I want to do everything via…
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Can I use APT on TinyCore?

Will tinyCore let me use APT? I am looking forward to use a very light version of Linux on a netbook or something. For the last few years I been using Linux Mint and I like it, but I am getting tired of it, since it is too big to my taste now, and I…
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Find the lightest desktop environment

A high-votes answer here for the question "What's the lightest desktop" which actually tried to quantitatively assess memory use relies on a Wikipedia page which quotes 2011 data. The newest article I could find dates back to November 2018 (thanks…
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Does Linux not distinguish between processes and threads?

As far as I know in Linux kernel, the structure task_struct represents threads i.e. light weight processes, but not processes. processes are not represented by any structure, but by groups of threads sharing the same thread group id. So is the…
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What distribution for light weight server?

I'm planning on setting up a VM linux box. It needs to be as light weight as possible - no need for GUI. Requirements: It will be connected to VPN It will be running maintenance scripts on mysql server every night and schedule backups. (we have…
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Dedicated-purpose, single application linux boxes

I'm designing an app that will be deployed/installed to a linux machine (perhaps Archlinux, but could be any distro and in fact I would actually prefer something lightweight and inside the Debian family if at all possible). This machine will not be…
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Linux OS running a single application

I want to build a Linux based OS which is custom made for only one application and is totally light-weight and uses minimum system resources. How do I go about this? Would stripping down an already existing OS such as Ubuntu be a good idea?
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Command Line only UNIX/Linux OS

Does anybody know of any lightweight Linux/UNIX command-line only distros? I'm trying to look for one that's less than 80MB if possible and comes with the minimum amount of required software included in the box. Any Linux/UNIX distros that can fit…
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looking for light weight Linux for a old 104 pc

I am looking for a light weight Linux for a PC that runs at 200 Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM. I was thinking maybe Lubuntu, as the system requirements state it needs at least a Pentium 2 generation with 128 Megs of RAM. The GUI is not all that important…
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Looking for a distro with GUI fit for Windows 98 PCs

I have a Windows 98 computer that we still use (the hardware works just fine, but Windows is becoming a bit flaky and I'd rather go problem hunting and solving with Linux rather than Win98). I'm looking for a very lightweight distribution (with a…
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What is "lightweight"?

Is there a technical definition, or at least some benchmark notion, of the word "lightweight"? Is it just some arbitrary "doesn't consume a lot of computer resources"? Or perhaps "the application doesn't fork new processes" (a singe process or…
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Lightweight browser for linux

Is there a lightweight, fast browser (for old hardware) for linux which has the following features: supports tags for bookmarks and has a tag search function supports (possibly via plugins) most modern web media (e.g. youtube videos ...) has an…
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Is there a way to have a web browser while no KDE or GNOME is installed?

Possible Duplicate: install firefox in ubuntu-server edition I'm running an ubuntu machine (server actually) that does not have any user interface installed, only a command line. I was wondering if it'd be possible to have a web browser, say…
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Lightweight SSH-only distro (< 128 MiB RAM)

I am looking to set up an SSH entry point into my network via a lightweight Linux or BSD setup. The purpose of the distro will be to allow SSH access into the rest of the internal network—that's it. It does not need to serve any other function, and…
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