Questions tagged [lightweight]
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I need lightweight Linux distro with VM support for an old processor
I have an old notebook with an i3-2350M (2 cores, 4 threads, and integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000) and 4 Gb RAM, and a decent SSD.
The mother does not supports more ram.
I only use it, mostly for web ...
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What is the webkitwebprocess in linux?
So the other day I was looking for a ultra light weight browser. Midori was the first option as per internet. But this was the RAM usage of it.
RAM USAGE
though midori took only around 100MB, the ...
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What makes a program load so fast? [closed]
I have this question that I need an answer to.
What makes programs like st, zathura, sxiv, and feh load instantly and what makes programs like VS Code and Google Chrome load so slowly in low-spec ...
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Is there a light-weight version of X?
I am setting up a computer as a an older tablet "PC".
It will run Debian and a single application, without any window manager. No Internet is needed, nor is remote access.
To ensure it runs ...
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Most lightweight Ubuntu-based linux distro 2021 [closed]
I'm a Ubuntu user, but my computer is getting older so I cannot use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I'm used to use Lubuntu 18.04 LTS and that works, but the support time runs out this year.
So I need to replease ...
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Lightweight process/daemon monitor? (ie. monitor and restart a single process)
Can anybody recommend a lightweight process/daemon monitor?
I'm running a user-land service process and I just need something to monitor and restart it when it crashes. The system is running embedded ...
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Will change distro speed up boot up time?
I have an old-ish laptop with a Celeron cpu. 3 Gb of RAM. I had manjaro lxqt installed, but because I rarely use it anymore, a rolling distro isn't very appropriate. Every time I wanted to update it, ...
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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 ...
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Trying to speed up lightweight distro on old computer
I'm trying to install a lightweight distro on my sister's old desktop. It has a Celeron 3.06Ghz processor, a 80GB HD but only 432 MiB RAM.
With these specs I thought antiX-09.2.1_386-base was my best ...
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Can PowerShell be run on TinyCore Linux?
Is there a way to install PowerShell on TinyCore? The below link is the MS documentation for supported Linux distros.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-...
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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 ...
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Fetched size and Installed Size
i have 2 packages the first one has a Fetched 89.2 kb size and it has 571 installed size ( lxterminal ) , and the other one has a Fetched 1738 kb size and it has 502 installed size ( mlterm ) . how ...
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Give application instances their own IPs? Extremely lightweight containerization?
About two years ago I received a note with a method, but I was not able to find the note or the method right now. Anyone know the easiest way to achieve this?
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I need a very small amount of Linux Utils - How should I go about selecting Distro?
I require some basic utils like ls, dd, zip, and fdisk so that I can clone a HD of a Windows Machine.
I will be using Linux only for this dd clone, then shutting down.
Rather than booting up a ...
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Better battery saver linux between ubuntu mate and xubuntu
I have tried xubuntu, lubuntu and ubuntu mate. I found xubuntu and ubuntu mate desktop environment good. My main concern is battery saving. Which saves better battery between Ubuntu mate and xubuntu
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