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What's the best lightweight Linux distro?

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bmarkus:
There is an interesting review of small distros in Tuxradar:

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/whats-best-lightweight-linux-distro

jur:
Well they didn't test deeper and seem to have gotten the answer wrong.

I will supply the correct answer now:

Tiny Core Linux: 10/10

bmarkus:
It is not a deep technical review but summarize experience facing thes distros from average customer point of view.

bigpcman:

--- Quote from: bmarkus on April 14, 2010, 02:59:28 AM ---It is not a deep technical review but summarize experience facing thes distros from average customer point of view.

--- End quote ---

I wonder how  tc with all the applications included in Slitaz installed (or equivalents) compares to the stock Slitaz.

Simple things like boot time, general performance, resources required, and package management. Would there be much difference?

tclfan:
I had been with SliTaz since beginning until I found TinyCore. SliTaz is an excellent distro but Tiny Core is better:
1. Architecture - more modular
2. More flexible. E.g. Any WM can be easily included.
3. Better implementation of Xorg, etc. SliTaz is still using HAL I think and does not always render proper resolution. TinyCore went a step further here and on the same hardware works properly.
4. Networking is better in TC according to my testing
5. Development cycle has been faster so far.

What TinyCore is missing to be rated better in such reviews is a showcase distro. Preserving the core and modular architecture a showcase distro should be composed such as proposed earlier or including more software so it is ready to go and reach vast population of users. Currently, easy as it is, still needs quite a bit of work for the user to configure a useful system and few spend the time to learn and do it.

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