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ifh-hn ◴[] No.46174339[source]
I've used many of these small Linux distros. I used to have Tiny Core in a VM for different things.

I also like SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en, and Slax too: https://www.slax.org/

Oh and puppy Linux, which I could never get into but was good for live CDs: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

And there's also Alpine too.

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forinti ◴[] No.46176521[source]
I tried a handful of small distros in order to give new life to an old laptop with an AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM.

The most responsive one, unexpectedly, was Raspberry Pi OS.

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1. lproven ◴[] No.46190984[source]
Yep. PiOS Desktop (for x86) was a superb very-lightweight distro.

I carefully put a fairly minimal Xfce setup on it instead of LXDE and RAM usage doubled. It's impressively hand crafted and pruned.

Sadly, though, it hasn't been updated since Debian 11.