Which Lightweight Distro do you prefer and why?

[galacticaboy]

Lightweight distros are great, what one do you prefer and why?

[galacticaboy]

I choose Xubuntu. Xubuntu is great for me, it is light on resources and it still provides all of the functionality of a normal Gnome of KDE desktop. It also just looks damn great and that little mouse is so adorable! =-\

[Spice Weasel]

Alpine Linux / Windows 2000

[XubuRoxMySox]

Of the ones listed, I think Xubu is my favorite because:

• It's a model of simplicity
  
• It uses the ginormous Ubuntu repositories
  
• It's agile and quick on my modest hardware
  
• Installation is a breeze
  
• Xfce is stunningly gorgeous and configurable, yet simple and kid-friendly.

It rocks my socks!

[galacticaboy]

Alpine Linux / Windows 2000

What is Alpine Linux, I tried looking it up but I cannot find any pictures of it. =-\

[boydrice]

Slackware and Debian are my favorite lightweight distros. Why, they are extremely configureable, flexible, stable, and light on resources.

[23dornot23d]

Arch Bang ..... because its brought one of my older machines back to life ....

The speed is the thing here and low memory usage

[KBD47]

Very hard choice between puppy and xubuntu. I chose puppy but xubuntu is great.

[wojox]

Arch/dwm FTW

[lykwydchykyn]

The operative question is, of course, "For what purpose?"

I've gotten some good use out of tinycore in some special situations, and I've been enjoying tinkering with slitaz some.

But usually if I want to make an old computer useful, I just pull something custom together from debian.