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Lightweight Distros on Test GROUP TEST LIGHTWEIGHT DISTROS LIGHTWEIGHT DISTROS GROUP TEST Mayank Sharma is on the lookout for distros tailor made to infuse life into his ageing computers. On Test Lightweight distros here has always been a some text editing, and watch some Linux Lite demand for lightweight videos. These users don’t need URL www.linuxliteos.com Talternatives both for the latest multi-core machines VERSION 2.0 individual apps and for complete loaded with several gigabytes of DESKTOP Xfce distributions. But the recent advent RAM or even a dedicated graphics Does the second version of the distro of feature-rich resource-hungry card. However, chances are their does enough to justify its title? software has reinvigorated efforts hardware isn’t supported by the to put those old, otherwise obsolete latest kernel, which keeps dropping WattOS machines to good use. support for older hardware that is URL www.planetwatt.com For a long time the primary no longer in vogue, such as dial-up VERSION R8 migrators to Linux were people modems. Back in 2012, support DESKTOP LXDE, Mate, Openbox who had fallen prey to the easily for the i386 chip was dropped from Has switching the base distro from exploitable nature of proprietary the kernel and some distros, like Ubuntu to Debian made any difference? operating systems. Of late though CentOS, have gone one step ahead we’re getting a whole new set of and dropped support for the 32-bit SparkyLinux users who come along with their architecture entirely. healthy and functional computers URL www.sparkylinux.org that just can’t power the newer VERSION 3.5 New life DESKTOP LXDE, Mate, Xfce and others release of Windows. In addition to pruning the resource Multiple flavours with different desktops Plenty of hardware is good requirements of mainstream – is there one for you? enough to run the mainstream software, a large number of open Linux distros without any issues. source developers are working to However, the modern Linux desktop make obsolete hardware usable LXLE is a fairly resource hungry beast again. There are lightweight apps URL www.lxle.net as well, and your hardware might that consume a fraction of the VERSION 14.04 not have enough juice to power resources of their full-featured DESKTOPLXDE Unity or Gnome 3. In addition to alternatives and distros that What can this Lubuntu-based distro do users who have hardware that’s perform blazingly well on low-spec that its parent cannot? been outdated fairly recently, there’s machines. In this group test we another kind who are holding on look at some of the best distros TinyCore to their workhorses from the last that are designed from the grounds URL www.tinycorelinux.net decade. They usually just use their up to use the meagre hardware VERSION 5.4 computer to browse the web, do resources on dated computers. DESKTOP FLWM Will it live up to its name? DATING HARDWARE Defining hardware as “older” is tricky. onboard graphics. A couple of years New software is always levering on the ago, mainstream distros would perform Slacko Puppy pace of hardware developments and adequately on these machines, but not URL www.puppylinux.org rendering even relatively newer anymore. Nowaday, you need special hardware obsolete. Examples of these purpose distros to make good use of VERSION 5.7 relatively recent attic-ready hardware such hardware. We tested these distros DESKTOPJWM would be single-core or dual-core AMD on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom netbook with It’s the leading distro for old computers, Athlons and Intel Pentiums with about 1GB of RAM and on a dual-core 2.1GHz but can it win this challenge as well? 1GB of RAM that they share with laptop with 2GB of RAM. 56 www.linuxvoice.com LIGHTWEIGHT DISTROS GROUP TEST Lightweight alternatives here are two things that are developed. Other featherweight contenders than Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE 4. LXDE and common to every lightweight distro include the Midori web browser, Xpdf PDF Xfce are two of the popular options that are T-- a lightweight desktop environment viewer, Fotoxx image editor, CMPlayer media used by many distros. There’s also Mate, and/or lightweight apps. There are player, and App Grid software centre, among which is a continuation of Gnome 2. Then lightweight alternatives for every type of others. Some distros, most notably Puppy there’s Enlightenment, which includes some software. Office apps, such as the AbiWord Linux, also replace the stock apps with bling as well. Some distros, instead of using word processors and the Gnumeric custom ones optimised for the minimal a full-fledged desktop environment, just use spreadsheet, are a popular replacement for environment they are running under. window managers such as Openbox. Other mainstream full fledged suites like Similarly, there are also desktop lighter but esoteric window manager are LibreOffice and Calligra and are still being environments that are lighter on resources IceWM, Fluxbox, FVWM, and JWM. WattOS R8 Desktop computing for cheap. or a long time WattOS delivered the goodness of Ubuntu to low-powered Fmachines. However, the distro has now switched to Debian and is based on the current stable Wheezy branch. It’s available in three flavours: there’s one with the Mate desktop and another with LXDE, which both weigh in at around 800MB. There’s also an even lighter Microwatt edition. Being based on Debian, installation duties are handled by Debian’s graphical installer, which is pretty simple and straightforward. The WattOS developers have modified the installer with tips borrowed from the LMDE and Point Linux projects, but it still isn’t as intuitive as Ubuntu’s Ubiquity installer, with a manual partitioning step that might confuse new users. Once installed the distro occupies about 3GB of hard disk space. Both the LXDE and the Mate flavours ship with the Iceweasel browser, which is Debian’s trademark-stripped fork of the Firefox browser. Both flavours also include the The distro also includes power management utilities like PowerTOP to optimise power consumption. Shotwell image organiser, FileZilla FTP, Transmission BitTorrent client, Audacious Both distros were quick off the blocks and sports the conky system monitor and a audio player and Xfburn media burner. The we got to the desktops pretty quickly with simple panel at the bottom of the screen LXDE flavour also includes the VLC media Mate leading LXDE by a good 10 seconds. that houses open windows. player, which is oddly missing from the Mate Once loaded though LXDE took up about The developers have done a wonderful job version. 100MB less RAM than the fast-booting in picking up the right apps that don’t gorge Mate. App launch times were fairly similar on resources and don’t compromise Missing in action and both flavours performed as advertised. usability as well. While the distro might be One app that was conspicuous by its Even after several hours their memory designed for older computers, we wouldn’t absence was an office suite. All you have are footprints remained impressively low. shy away from recommending it as a lighter basic text editors -- Mate has Pluma and If you want something lighter still, there’s Debian alternative for regular use. LXDE has Leafpad, and these are both quite the Microwatt edition. Instead of a full- stripped down. On the upside though you fledged desktop manager, this flavour uses a VERDICT A wonderful distro that have the full Debian repository at your customised Openbox window manager in could put a spring in the disposal that you can install additional apps place of the PekWM window manager in step of any computer. from via the Synaptic package manager. earlier versions. The bare-minimum desktop www.linuxvoice.com 57 GROUP TEST LIGHTWEIGHT DISTROS Linux Lite 2.0 Can lite be right? he Linux Lite distro is based on (it’s also preconfigured here to connect Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, which to the LinuxDistroCommunity.com’s Tbrings along two very important Mumble server, so you can engage with components -- Xfce 4.11 and the other community users immediately. excellent and easy-to-handle Ubiquity Another unique aspect of the distro is installer. One of the first things you’ll its collection of well-designed scripts to Linux Lite is wonderfully stocked for everyday use, but this notice after installation is the distro’s add and remove programs. The Install comes at the cost of relatively sluggish performance. beautiful login manager followed by the Additional Software script gives a list aesthetically pleasing all-white theme. of 25 apps, including Google Chrome Ubuntu 14.04’s official repository as The desktop is clean and uses the Xfce and Chromium browsers, Google Talk well as several PPAs. This is also the desktop’s Whisker menu. The Browser Plugin to video chat via Google first release which uses the Linux developers have tweaked the desktop, Hangouts, Dropbox, Netflix, Skype, Wine, Lite’s own repositories for managing and the right-click menu includes PlayonLinux, and more. There’s also a its custom apps. One of these custom options to create shortcuts, launch the corresponding Remove Software script apps, the Lite User Manager, helps make task manager, and take screenshots. that’ll remove any software installed managing accounts a little easier for At first glance, Linux Lite looks and using the previous script. new users to comprehend. New users feels like a regular heavy-duty distro. There’s also the Synaptic package will also appreciate the bundled support The list of pre-installed apps doesn’t manager and the distro is tuned into and help manual. include any of the traditional lightweight apps and is instead brimming with the VERDICT usual suspects such as Gimp, Firefox, “One unique aspect of Linux A good distro for someone who’s new to VLC and LibreOffice.
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