![]() ![]() It is not bad, but I would have preferred a theme that exposes the prominent, or the default, color theme of the OS, though.īelow is the boot-logo and it includes a progress-bar, accuracy of which, is questionable.Īs an example, usually when the progress-bar reaches the half limit, the logo disappears and the system executes the login screen and starts to load the desktop. Linux Lite 2.2 comes with the default color theme of GRUB (if I’m not mistaken). I never encountered any issues & as always, enabled the user auto-login feature. Linux Lite is based on Ubuntu, thus it is the same installer (so I will not go into details). I measured them first, trying my best to keep the OS at a ‘unspoiled state’ (minimal amount of manual tweaks), although I did disable the start-up welcome screen & added the system monitor to the task-bar. So for achieving a acceptable level of accuracy, for each ‘test’, I took five samples, before arriving with the average values. I always take a great care while measuring the performance of an operating system. It's a Dell Vostro V-131 notebook.Īs my regular readers are aware of, I always include a performance based comparison (with a similar distro), and I decided to use the Manjaro 0.8.7.1 XFCE for the comparison. Intel Core i3-2330M CPU, Intel HD 3000 GPU, 4GB RAM (DDR3), Toshiba 7200 RPM (320GB) SATA HDD, Intel N-1030 Wireless adapter, Realtek network adapter ('RTL8168'), LED display with 1366x768 resolution (60Hz/60FPS). The current version is 2.2 and it is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS core and ships with Kernel 3.13.0-24 and Xorg 1.15.1.īelow is a brief information about the hardware setup on which it was tested: You can freely download this distribution’s disc images in 32-bit or 64-bit versions, I used the 64-bit one for this review (about 773.8MB, the file size shown in Windows will be slightly different). ![]() According to its developers, being intuitive & simple are its primary design goals, and from the look of things, I would say that so far they have done a pretty decent job. Its graphical environment is a bit barebones, but it's fast and runs almost anywhere.Like many other, it consists pretty much all the software applications that most users would require to get things done (Office suite, PDF viewer, GIMP editor, VLC, Optical disc burner, Web Browser & an E-mail client, Backup utility etc) but can still be considered lightweight due to the low memory consumption (more on that later). It works with 64-bit and 32-bit architectures but has no support for UEFI. Puppy Linux comes with virtually no software, which makes it ideal if you want to build your own minimalist Linux environment. Recommended system requirements for the 64-bit release are described as an Intel Core2Duo with 2GB of RAM. Opting for an Ubuntu-based distribution for example would provide support for Debian packages, while a Raspbian release makes it easy to install Puppy on a Raspberry Pi device. ![]() This means you can pick from Ubuntu, Raspbian, or Slackware-based Puppy Linux releases, depending on your preference. Puppy Linux describes itself as a collection of multiple Linux distributions that share the same principles, a unique set of apps and configurations, and the same consistent behaviors and features. It uses a combination of JWM and ROX Desktop for a lightweight desktop experience. The average release weighs in at about 300MB, making it one of the smallest (but not the smallest) releases on this list. No list of lightweight Linux distros would be complete without Puppy Linux. ![]()
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