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I am collecting Linux torrents right now (discuss.online)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sureshot0@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I like to have a few lightweight distros on hand because I enjoy restoring my old computers. I decided to seed these distros from the official torrents and became sort of addicted to doing it.

The most popular torrents seem to be MX Linux XFCE and Mint Ubuntu XFCE. MX Linux is at 20.2 in less than 10 days. I am wondering if there are any very small distros I haven't heard of.

Please a comment and tell me your favorite distro under 4g. I will go and try to find the torrent on their website.

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[–] NathanDerWeise@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Off of the top of my head: DSL (damn small Linux) recently made a comeback, last I checked. There's also Tiny Core Linux, which I've seen working even on old pentiums on a YouTube video. Puppy Linux of course. There's so many flavors of Puppy Linux.

Now, actually referencing Distrowatch: Linux Lite, Peppermint OS

I know there's more, but I have direct or indirect experience with all of these.

[–] sureshot0@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you like about these?

[–] NathanDerWeise@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I just checked and only Linux Lite actually has an official torrent. Sorry about that.

It's one of the ones I only have indirect experience with. A YouTuber I like reviewed it recently.

https://youtu.be/sJGf8zVt3MI