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Does anyone know any lightweight Ubuntu based disto that uses' less than 500Mb ram ?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Maybe Xubuntu

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is mostly a factor of the desktop environment used. The following should help you decide how to proceed:

https://linuxhint.com/lightest-ubuntu-distro/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

That 26mb Trisquel Mini minimum ram requirement has got to be a typo. Still, 256 mb (more likely) is still very impressive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I'm inclined to agree about the typo, but then again, Tiny Core Linux only needs 16MB and comes with a FLTK/FLWM desktop. It's not exactly feature rich, but still a functional desktop.

Edit: the LXDE website seems to suggest at least 256MB as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Debian, if you flip around the "based on" requirement.

Besides, what uses significant amounts of RAM is not "the distro" but the primarily the window manager, some daemons and little more. You can try LXDE as a window manager. Good luck with browsers tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Bohdi Linux.