Is there a Light-weight linux distro that includes a light-weight browser ?
 

Hi

I have an old acer aspire which is currently running Fedora 23. However the system resources on this machine are relatively limited - I have about 2.5 G of RAM available and a very limited Intel Atom 230 1.6G cpu - and running a full blown browser like Firefox or Google Chrome completely suffocates the system.

I have been unable to find a light-weight browser that works and each fedora upgrade seems to use more resources, so I have decided to install a more light-weight linux, but one which ideally comes with a light weight browser.

Does anyone know if there is a light-weight linux distro which includes a light-weight browser, or a working light-weight browser can easily be installed ?

My initial instinct is to go for one of the distros based on ubuntu - Linux Lite, Lubuntu, LXLE, Ubuntu MATE - but it is unclear whether a working light-weight browser comes with or can be installed on these.

Fedora 23 is tricky because it's been EOL for a long time - isn't the current version 32?
So I really recommend to install a lightweight distro, a current one. For old & weak devices, AntiX is usually the best recommendation.
Once you're able to update & install software, try surf. It's a very light frontend to a full-featured webkit engine.
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Try AntiX/Puppy/etc.

https://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Old+Computers#distrosearch

I used AntiX on a 1GB Atom netbook, until it got too slow, so then added another 1GB ram, made it work much better, however, there is no way of speeding up a 1.6GHz Atom processor.

You might like to see if SliTaz or FatDog Linux will work faster on yours, they used to on mine.

https://antixlinux.com/
https://www.slitaz.org/en/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/

Thank you very much for the replies and the very useful links.

It looks like AntiX should work fine on my little machine, so I will give that a go first since it is based on debian which I know a little bit about.

If it's still too slow then it looks like I can fall back on slitaz or fatdog - though I am less familiar with these OS (slitaz uses busybox!! which I have only seen on embedded devices).

After that it sounds like it should be easier to get hold of a light weight browser - surf looks good, so I'll give that a go.