Re:Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released
by squarefoot on Thursday January 31, 2019 @02:45PM
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For what I've seen in the 20 minutes I tried it, it's probably best suited for ridiculously low footprint cli only installs. My favorite low fat distro for desktop on constrained x86 hardware is DietPI, which regardless of the name doesn't run only on xPI boards and is functionally very close to a normal Debian, although much lighter.
This is from a DietPi x86-64 install onto a Virtualbox VM, XFCE desktop plus an open terminal and both Firefox and LibreOffice loaded; Firefox showing mozilla.org webpage and Libreoffice Writer an empty page.
Not bad at all! Although I prefer Armbian for embedded boards, DietPi really screams on small netbooks.
dietpi@DietPi:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2052524 464456 1112748 41452 475320 1405128
Swap: 45052 0 45052
This is from a DietPi x86-64 install onto a Virtualbox VM, XFCE desktop plus an open terminal and both Firefox and LibreOffice loaded; Firefox showing mozilla.org webpage and Libreoffice Writer an empty page. Not bad at all! Although I prefer Armbian for embedded boards, DietPi really screams on small netbooks.
(beware of punch-in-the-eye colors) https://dietpi.com/#download