Lightweight Distros
Review of lightweight Linux distros Over the weekend I reviewed the following Linux lightweight distros: Lubuntu, Manjaro, Madbox (all from the respective stable build repos) My requirements were quite unique, wanted to setup Linux pc mainly to enable my 50inch Panasonic Viera LED TV 1080p to go Smart! needs to be quick, should have a bare minimum software pre-loaded, should be based on Ubuntu with community support, important when we look at Open-source software. Well... finally I unleashed a mean, quick Smart TV thanks to Madbox Linux which is based on Ubuntu. The PC is very old P4 age, with 1gb ram, NVidia video card with 128MB almost redundant with VGA output to TV's HDMI works okay. Getting the resolution right was quite a painful experience with Manjaro or Lubuntu with the latter 13.04 version which used LXDE desktop.Though I chose the right drivers for Nvidia but still was not enjoyable it was relatively slow to load. The problem was not the drivers it helped