What is the most economical Linux distribution?

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You need a Linux distribution that will occupy the minimum size on an Oracle VirtualBox virtual disk. OS is needed only to access the Internet through Chrome, other programs will not be used. In principle, I don’t feel sorry for the place, but this does not mean that I should let Tajiks into a 10-room apartment, even if I live there alone, right?

Answer 1

In principle, I don’t feel sorry for the place, but this does not mean that I should let Tajiks into a 10-room apartment, even if I live there alone,

Chrome alone will take up 8 out of 10 rooms.
if this is true, you can not use DE at all and run only X and Chrome in them

Answer 2

PuppyRus
wiki.puppyrus.org/start

Answer 3

Alpine linux, 4mb :)

Answer 4

Debian kiosk with Chromium.

Answer 5

It kinda sounds like bullshit. To launch the browser, install a virtual machine, roll the operating system into it, select chrome as the browser and at the same time talk about saving space ??? :D
Are you going to watch porn? Rolling the distribution kit will not give you any bypass of locks or privacy, because. will not hide your traffic from the provider. Why do you need a browser that has 1.5 GB of RAM with two tabs open, in a virtual machine? Or do you want to turn a tunnel into a tunnel?

Answer 6

but this does not mean that I should let Tajiks into a 10-room apartment
humor is good
Generally Lubuntu or Lxde

Answer 7

Not exactly as described above. There are distributions tailored to the size.
Slitaz, Tinycore.
I use Slitaz on a virtual machine. About 200MB is occupied by a system with a full-fledged graphical environment and with everything that I need.

Answer 8

www.linuxfromscratch.org

Answer 9

I remember there was such de - openbox. It's really lightweight, lighter than lxde and xfce. To run one application - that's it.

Answer 10

For the same purposes put MX Linux. It turned out to be perfect in every way.

Answer 11

I once bothered with a Windows 98 level machine with 256MB of memory.
There, Windows XP worked, albeit with brakes, but Chrome would not work on such an old OS. I found some old browser, pulled a couple of tabs with brakes and bugs, like Android 4.0.
I put Xubuntu there (then there was version 14 or 16, the difference from the new one is minimal). Everything is fine, almost like XP in speed, but slows down a little more.
Also installed Debian, FreeBSD, Debian console, tried Puppy (didn't run at all on such an old machine) - more problems than use. Same goes for a couple of old mini-Linux distros that claimed to be for old machines, Slacks and Knoppix, emnip.
Installed Lubuntu - rubbish. System requirements like Xubuntu, but DE level Windows 98.
Each tab of any browser is now 100MB! There is worse, for example, Wikipedia has a memory leak problem - each tab left for a day will take up 1-2 GB. Because of what, a normal PC will start to slow down. If the virtual machine has little memory, it will start swapping and slowing down.
There was also a machine from the 2010s with 4GB of RAM. Also settled on Xubuntu. At the same time compiling the kernel, throwing out everything superfluous, which gave ~ 10% gain in memory and speed. (On more modern machines, it makes no sense to compile.) Used as a development worker, with dozens of browser tabs, or with an IDE parallel to the browser.
In general, for weak machines for the norms. using only Xubuntu.

Answer 12

Apparently Chrome OS
But I would put RancherOS + Desktop Environment docker + Chrome docker

Answer 13

Lubuntu 18lts. Select the minimum installation option, then a little file. From what has been achieved: runs on Atom (single-core) with 1 GB of RAM. Of course, the browser is heavy (chrome) - but there will be more a question of how many tabs to open and how heavy open sites will be.
Yes, there are much easier options, up to building your own distribution. For the "fast" option, lubuntu is fine.

Answer 14

What's question? ChromeOS. That's what she wrote for...

Answer 15

TinyCore, DamnSmall. (I studied the issue 4 years ago, some of them did not have a Russian locale. Maybe they have corrected it now.)

Answer 16

install debian without a graphical shell