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Best Practices for Optimizing Linux Performance on Low-End Hardware

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Hi,
I’m using Linux on an older low-end machine and looking for ways to optimize performance. What are the best tweaks, lightweight distros, and system configurations to improve speed and efficiency? Any tips on reducing resource usage, optimizing boot time, or managing background processes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance !

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How low end?

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We get good enough performance on 35 dollar Pi’s.

I’m right now on an old Acer Aspire One AOA150

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Only 1 gig RAM, 120gig HD, I boot several versions of Slackware based Puppy Linux, posting from a release S15Pup32 250201, using a web browser based on Palemoon called New Moon. Only tweaks I’ve done with this Puppy is swap the kernel and driver from an older Slackware based Pup, and turn off EDD on the kernel line of grub4dos. Only other trick I use is specific for Puppy Linux only, a I don’t load the Puppy SFS files into RAM via a boot time option. I run with a 1 gig swap file, all Pups are “frugal” installed on the internal HDD, NTFS formatted, shared with Windows XP SP3.

Most tips for getting best performance out of Linux distros are distro specific…What works in one distro may or may not work in another.

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