Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 10:58 UTC, submitted by i386DX
Abandoned Zone reviewed several lightweight Linux distributions, and concluded: "First of all it has to be clear that there's a difference between 'lightweight' and 'lightweight'. Especially Damn Small Linux is very lightweight, but also it's not really usable on 'more recent' systems. It think DSL is perfect for 486 or Pentium 1-based systems but nothing more. At the other side there are Zenwalk and Xubuntu which are pretty heavy lightweight distributions. I think the use of Xfce has something to do with that. All the others are floating between those two extremes."
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From the Linux distributions I would choose Draco GNU/Linux [ http://www.dracolinux.org ], because its most clean and BSD-like Linux out there.
featues:
-- NetBSD's pkgsrc.org as package management
-- OSS instead of poor ALSA
-- BSD init scripts (like in Arch Linux)
-- Configuration /etc/rc.conf (like in Arch Linux)
-- at the beginning based on Slackware Linux