ExLight Linux - Lightest Linux Distro I Have Ever Used

Very cool, is it good for video editing?

Looks nice why isn't it listed on Distrowatch database?

antiX is a million times better. Maybe a trillion. Fire that sucker up and it'll blow your mind.

I’m using a personally customised antiX 22, with all the tweaks I run it at 280 mb idle. Without my tweaks it runs easily 180mb or below.

The last version of MaBox use 300 Mb when idle and is beautidul

Looks good- may try this too..

Have you tried Loc-Os? You will be nicely surprised.

in which universe is this os light? come on please present once a really light distros like ChaletOS or XentaOS
both are really great and fast

thank you that you are a human, and not an AI voice. It's so nice to hear someone who is flesh and blood.

I guess lightweight is relative 400mb is not very light

I have some Asus netbooks and they run AntiX Linux nice and butter smooth. I'll definitely give this distro a try on my 8gb netbooks.

Hi, could you tell me which distro are you running at the beginning of the video?

Password for install ??? The username in the documentation do not work ...... user / live ?? root / root ???

I will take a look at ExLight, I like what Glen MacArthur (AV Linux) has done so far with his MXDE-EFL Enlightenment build. I also see that ArcoLinuxB (arch) will soon release an Enlightenment build.

Puppy Linux has many versions some were abt 100 MB.

what is the password login for exlight live usb? i cant find it and cant use exlight

Is it better than antix linux?

Does it run steam

What's the advantage over vanilla Debian with LXQT on it? Personally I'm using Debian Bookworm with LXQT.

I made a live-usb-pen drive, after start the live session ExLight requires to type a username and a password. Anybody knows the username and the password at the first start of the live session?

Many good suggestions here, another easy one is ALT Linux Starterkit, for example P10 Icewm SysV, or LXDE starterkit (systemd), they have others incl Windowmaker, Enlightenment also.

Never even got it into the live session on 2 laptops and reformatted usb drive, new image. Just returns to lightdm on login.

Alpine Linux. Runs bout as light as it's gonna get. Not based on debian, no systemd. Great for old stuff too. Void Linux is pretty in line with lightweight if you do it right but you'll likely work for it w/ the void-packages. Good stuff tho, I use Void for my main computer and on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Might try on old NetBook computer and let you know how it works out. How much lighter than Mint is this distro?

OP: "lightest distro great for older machines"
needs 3 gigs of ram ...
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The latest antix boots up to 80mb in ram. I can use it on my pentium Ii with 288mb of ram total.

I tried downloading this distro to check it out but it is unusable. Once you boot up it goes to a login screen and you are unable to login. Using used and live period and foot Wil blank the screen for a moment and it goes back to a login scdeen. Does anyone else have this issue and is there a fix?

Tried installing this os on an old laptop after watching the video, just to have a play, didn’t install, just got a grub screen on restart

Linux is obese. BSD and Windows are Mach kernel based and use small system memory more efficiently. Hurd of any working Linux microkernel implementation?

It's all about esthetics and sometimes ergonomics but then the programs, with or without flaws, are the same. Something very flashy met lots of effects requires more ram and power. My own wish would be something like a perfect ReactOS. However I can understand nobody likes to spend half his life on that (for free) since it's probably extremely hard to do.

This is asking me for my inlog name and password before i even install it.can you help me please

Check out Puppy Linux - frugal or disk install options, you can load it and run it totally from RAM.. Many branches of Puppy also available, you can easily remaster your own distro or actually build one from the ground up with little effort using several different base distro's (debian, slackware, arch etc).. I think it is less than 350 meg is size..

lightweight and easy to install : Artix linux

Lightest Linux distro ever is TinyCore btw

You don't need a light version for a dual core. I'm running Zorin Core on three, one with only 4 GBs. SSD added, of course. If you want it zippier, turn off animation. I have an old single core laptop I need to try tho.

I thought Slax is the lightest

all of those distros now have a cool wallpaper but what about the sysctl params and the dev tools and other awesome features ...

My eyesight is worse than yours. How good is the magnifier? TIA

It's a very beautiful theme it uses
Today's look are very cold and has no soul

Have you looked at Bodhi Linux? It's based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (no 22.04 yet), using the Moksha desktop, which appears to be their fork of the Enlightenment DE. Very attractive default desktop, highly configurable, and fully featured.

Thank you so much. Looks excellent, defo will install on my Proxmox and carry around live USB stick to plugin on other peoples desktop. Cheers ATB from UK

I use Enlightenment on top of a Lubuntu 22.04 install and it runs a whole lot better and smoother than most desktop, even when comparing glmark2 scores between them.

The only downside to enlightenment is the mouse scrolling is the old 1990s way. It's a pain to make natural scrolling work across the entire desktop environment. I use to use enlightenment 10 years ago and it was always a low resource user with nice functionality. But the natural scrolling thing is what made me leave and move to XFCE. I hope that since the Budgie desktop environment is moving its tools to the enlightenment EFL library and away from Gnome/GTK that we can finally get a return of the oldest Linux desktop to compete with the others.

Hello. When i put user as login and live as password. Or root as login an root as password. The live session dont work! Anyway what is the use of putting a password on a live session login.? So i stop trying exlight linux. That one thing i hâte on some linux Os. Making difficulty for nothing.

A light distro with Firefox? I think is better change to Midori.

Porteus is about 600MB....

Very low resource usage.

DebianDog

Have you ever heard about Loc-OS, as far as I know it's the most functional lightweight distribution. It uses lxde with openbox, based on debian 11, it uses sysvinit instead uses systemd. Its usage ram is around 100-200 MB also it has version to 64 and 32 bits.
It's the distro I use currently