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Super nostalgic! I remember them having a lite edition which ran noticeably faster on my netbook

• comprev 4y ago
  nLite was popular in the carputer scene. I ran a stripped down XP version on a low power industrial PC (Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, laptop disk) hooked up to a Lilliput touchscreen up front. Good times!
  • radicalbyte 4y ago
    Also in the "people who want a fast PC and don't want all the extra shite MS keep bundling". Miss those days. Seems like even Linux installs are monsters nowadays.
    • genewitch 4y ago
      gentoo (and begrudgingly, i'll admit ubuntu server) are really light. I run web app servers on mostly gentoo, ubuntu if it requires docker, and a base install is 30-50MB of ram used. Right now my cgi, syncthing, and web fileserver is using 125MB. misskey server is using 725, i think it uses 175 on boot, so possible memory leak there. matrix server is using 363MB. Mattermost server been up for 3 months and is using 383MB. if you remove all the source files and cruft from a gentoo install when you're done setting it up, the actual system is less than 1GB on disk, and as mentioned, 30-50MB of memory used. Ubuntu is similar, although it does include more helper apps so the disk weight is higher.
      • usrn 4y ago
        As long as you don't need glibc Alpine is extremely small. The rootfs on their site is something like 3MB.
  • accrual 4y ago
    I credit nLite with improving my understanding of Windows. I was educational to see all the components listed with tooltips about their function and dependencies. It was like building your own custom copy of Windows. At one point I think I had a copy of XP running using 50MB of RAM at the desktop.
• nunez 4y ago
  definitely installed xp netbook edition, and it was faster than full boat xp but still a chonker compared to whatever the popular linux distro for netbooks was back then