Best linux for Chrome only?

cgarrad

I have Ubuntu 10 on a Sony tz150 laptop but its starting to strain and I hear 11 is worse again.

I only use it for holidays and chrome is all i need.

Is there a striped down distro like windows had tiny xp?

hardware support would be nice but not essential as i can install device if needed.

Thanks.

niallb

How about Chromium OS from Hexxeh?

cgarrad

Looks good but it wants to be run from a usb drive ;-(

can it be run from a partition?

Orion

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

harney

While waiting for answers www.distrowatch.com is a decent place to browse.

Orion

Sorry misread your post. Local install you want.

There's Damn Small Linux (DSL), Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE), Crunchbang, Vector Linux, Puppy Linux. Just to name a few very light versions for older, lower-spec machines.

If you want to stick with Ubuntu (some of the above are Ubuntu derivatives as well) then you could try Xubuntu which is Ubuntu using the XFCE desktop environment. It's less of a resource hog than Ubuntu or Kubuntu.

Orion

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/8-of-the-best-tiny-linux-distros-683552 has reviews of some small distros.

niallb

cgarrad wrote: »

Looks good but it wants to be run from a usb drive ;-(

can it be run from a partition?

Of course it can. Read a bit of the wiki.

Launch a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) after booting from the USB stick and type 'install /dev/sda' to kick off the installation - it'll replace everything on your drive so backup first.

Khannie

niallb wrote: »

How about Chromium OS from Hexxeh?

Seems like the obvious solution.

If you want a "full OS", I like lubuntu a lot (quite a bit more than xubuntu).

Stuxnet

new linux mint 12 is the shizz, its ubuntu 11.10 with the crappy ui done away with, and gnome 3 done the way gnome 3 should of been done !!

Ste-

Khannie wrote: »

Seems like the obvious solution.

If you want a "full OS", I like lubuntu a lot (quite a bit more than xubuntu).

Have that installed on 2 older machines.
The oldest being an old Dell inspiron. Which coupled with a new wifi pci card has given it a new lease of life. Handy for general browsing facebook and mail stuff I like to do away from home.
Great lightweight distro.

cgarrad

Nice one, loads to try ;-)

Ill let you know how I get on, Thanks.

cgarrad

Went with Linux Mint.

Seems faster than the copy of ubuntu I had.

Chromium was ideal for what i needed but once it was installed it proved too simple

Anyway thanks.