हल्के लिनक्स वितरण

हल्के लिनक्स वितरण (light-weight Linux distribution) से आशय उन लिनक्स वितरणों से है जिनको चलाने के लिए सर्वगुणसम्पन्न (feature-rich) लिनक्स वितरणों की अपेक्षा कम स्मृति (मेमोरी) और कम प्रोसेसर-चाल आवश्यक होती हैं।

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 वितरण आवश्यक न्यूनतम सिस्टम डेस्कटॉप / विण्डो मिनेजर किससे फोर्क किया गया पैकेज मैनेजर फाइल का आकार (लगभग) किसके लिए? अद्यतन संस्करण वर्ष रखरखाव कर्ता आरम्भ होने का वर्ष संस्थापक ऐब्सोल्यूट लिनक्स 486 processor
 64 MB RAM (1GB+ suggested) iceWM -  698 MB desktop 2018 Absolute Linux Team 2007 Absolute Linux Team Alpine Linux APK 8 MB (container), 130 MB (disk) Desktop 2018 Alpine Linux Development Team 2010 Members of the LEAF Project antiX Intel/AMD X86
 256 MB RAM IceWM, Fluxbox, JWM MEPIS < Debian Synaptic 555 MB (Base), 654 MB (Full), 128 (Core) Desktop, portability (with persistence ) 2018 Anticapitalista 2007 Anticapitalista BasicLinux  (†) 386 CPU
 3 MB RAM  JWM window manager  BusyBox --Slackware  2.8 MB (floppy) Desktop 2005 (v3.5)  2000 Steven C. Darnold NZ Bodhi Linux 500 MHz processor
 128 MB of RAM 
 4 GB of drive space Moksha (a fixed E17) Ubuntu < Debian APT 575 MB (Standard), 1024 MB (AppPack) Desktop 2018 Bodhi Linux Team 2011 Bodhi Linux Team BunsenLabs Linux RAM (2017): 256 MB OpenBox Debian Stable  825 MB Desktop 2018 Core Maintainers 2015 Core Maintainers Damn Small Linux † CPU: 486dx
 RAM: 8 MB Fluxbox, JWM - APT (optional) 50 MB Desktop 2008  2005 John Andrews, et al. CRUX RAM (2017): 192 OpenBox -  1773 MB BSD/ experienced users, Lightweight 2018 Core maintainers 2002 Per Lidén GoboLinux x86_64 processor
 128 MB RAM (1 GB+ suggested for full graphical use) Awesome -  958 MB desktop 2017 GoboLinux Team 2003 Hisham Muhammad and André Detsch Knoppix 486 CPU
 32 MB RAM (text)
 128 MB RAM (LXDE)
 512 MB RAM (recommended) LXDE -  701 MB Live 2018  2000 Klaus Knopper LinuxBBQ RAM (2017): 256 MB several (>75) Debian, Slackware  417 MB Desktop 2018 BBQ team 2013 Julius Hader Lightweight Portable Security? iceWM ArchLinux  390 MB Secure live operating system 2017 United States Department of Defense 2011 United States Department of Defense Linux Lite RAM (2017): 256 MB
 8 GByte disk space XFCE Ubuntu APT 955 MB Desktop (Windows users) 2018 Jerry Bezencon 2013 Jerry Bezencon Lubuntu CPU: 386 or Pentium
 RAM: (2017) 256 to 512 MB LXDE Ubuntu APT 916 MB lightweight desktop 2018 Lubuntu team 2009 Lubuntu team LXLE CPU (2017): Pentium III
 RAM (2017): 512 MB LXDE Ubuntu LTS APT 1300 MB older computers, intermediate users 2016 LXLE team 2012 Ronnie MX Linux  CPU: 486
 RAM (2016): 512 MB Xfce 4 antiX < MEPIS < Debian APT 1024 MB Midweight Desktop 2018 MEPIS Community - anticapitalista Nanolinux CPU: 486
 RAM (2017): 64 MB SLWM on Nano-X Tiny core linux. MicroCore Linux with BusyBox.  19 MB Lightweight, Runs on RAM, advanced 2015 Georg Potthast - Georg Potthast OpenWrt CPU: x86 and over 50 router platforms
 RAM (2018): 32 MB (64 MB recommended) None (headless server) - Includes LuCI admin UI - opkg 6 MB SOHO Routers 2018 OpenWrt developers 2004 PCLinuxOS CPU: 64 bits (from 2016)
 RAM (2017): 512 MB KDE, LXDE, MATE Mandrake  833 MB (LXDE) Live 2018 Bill Reynolds 2003 Bill Reynolds Peppermint Linux OS 
 x86 processor
 512 MB RAM (v6 2015. 2 GB recommended) LXDE Lubuntu APT 1332 MB desktop 2017 Peppermint, LLC 2010 Peppermint, LLC Porteus 32 bit CPU
 36 MB RAM (multiple) Slackware  260 MB (LxQt) lightweight, portable (with persistence ) 2018 Porteus 2010 Fanthom Puppy Linux RAM (2017): 256 MB JWM-2.3.2 - PPM (Puppy Package Manager) 234 MB (Slacko) portable (with persistence ), lightweight  2017 Puppy Foundation 2003 Barry Kauler Salix OS? MATE, KDE, Xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox Slackware  613 MB (Fluxbox), 852 MB (MATE live) desktop 2016 Tomas Matejicek  2002 Tomas Matejicek  Slax RAM (2017): 128 MB without web browser KDE until Version < 9 / Fluxbox since Version 9 Slackware until Version < 9 / Debian since Version 9  226 MB portable 2018 Tomas Matejicek  2002 Tomas Matejicek  SliTaz RAM (2017): 24 MB (loram-cdrom), 128 MB (loram),  Openbox - Tazpkg 50 MB Portable. Live (No persistence by default) persistence can be added rather easily though 2018 dev team 2008 Christophe Lincoln Tiny Core Linux CPU: 486dx
 RAM: 46 MB FLTK/FLWM Tiny Core Linux  11 MB (Core), 16 MB (TinyCore), 106 MB (CorePlus) portable, advanced 2018 Team Tiny Core 2009 Robert Shingledecker Trisquel Mini Pentium II CPU
 256 MB RAM LXDE Ubuntu LTS APT 609 MB Free software: desktop 2018 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) 2005 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez (quidam) TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library RAM (2017): 256 MB None (headless server) - Includes Webmin admin UI Debian (a minified base) 212 MB (Core) Lightweight headless server 2018 TurnKey Linux Team 2008 Alon Swartz, Liraz Siri VectorLinux Light RAM: 64 MB (Light edition), 96 (Standard edition), 256 (Live edition)) Several / IceWM Slackware  618 MB Desktop 2017 - 2001 ? - Void Linux Pentium 4 (SSE2) or ARMv6
 96 MB RAM
 350MB hard drive Enlightenment, Cinnamon, LXDE, LxQt, MATE, XFCE or none  - XBPS  250MB (i686 w/o DE) Desktop/ embedded 2018 Juan RP and contributors 2008 Juan Romero Pardines Xubuntu 
 RAM (2017): 512 MB Xfce Ubuntu APT 960 MB lightweight desktop 2018 Xubuntu team 2008 Xubuntu team Zenwalk? Xfce Slackware  974 MB desktop 2018 dev team 2004 Jean-Philippe Guillemin Distribution Minimum system requirements Desktop Environment / Window Manager Fork Package manager Approximate file size Target audience Latest release year Maintainer Initial release year Founder

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