Best Lightweight Distro
I have a small Linode that runs an Opensimulator server and MySQL instance. My thought is that Ubuntu is overkill. Is there a lighter-weight distro that would be better suited?
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mjones
Linode Staff
There's quite a few lightweight distros out there. From the images we have available in the Linode Manager there's Slackware which is on the lighter side, and Arch which is lighter to begin with and also very customizable.
If you'd like to install a custom distro I'd recommend LXLE. I've used it before, and it's very similar to Ubuntu while being noticeably lighter weight.
We've posted your question on Twitter to see what our followers think. You can see their feedback here: https://twitter.com/linode/status/1070791202277076992
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the suggestions and for posting to Twitter. I have some reading to do.