Is there a Light-weight linux distro that includes a light-weight browser ?
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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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Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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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.
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.
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