Every time I see "lightweight Linux", my first thought is, "Will it run better/faster/smaller on RPi compared to its default distro?"
There's no mention of Raspberry Pi in the website. I think if it's indeed more lightweight, they should mention it.
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> There's no mention of Raspberry Pi in the website
https://bkhome.org/news/202101/easyos-dunfell-26-released-fo...
> even a Pi3B with 1GB RAM will work, or rather "just work" -- I recommend at least a Pi4 with 2GB RAM -- I have the 8GB RAM board.
EasyOS is a container-focused OS with its own in-house containerization mechanism,[2] and it's seemingly not designed for or aimed at Pis specifically.
2: https://bkhome.org/news/202204/some-handy-tricks-with-easy-c...
>Easy will work on an old computer, as long as it has a 64-bit x86 CPU
different interpretation of "old" than what I had in mind haha
My home desktop was running 64-bit x86 back in 2005. My laptop in 2007. What did you have in mind?
A fine criteria except for the fact that the rpis have some special problems - the combination of low(ish) ram and unreliable storage? So you can't (shouldn't) expand ram via disk (eats the SD card) - and need to fit everything in ram. This is different from a typical low end netbook/laptop - which might have more ram, and reliable, fast (compared to mechanical hdds) reliable storage (cheap ssd).
In principle I agree - rpis are small/lightweight - but I'm afraid distros would do better targeting rpi or typical "small pc".
Ed: that said, this is (like puppy) designed to run from USB stick, in ram, with a section for user data:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=2535
I'm not sure if it has the option to limit writes, like puppy?:
> I'm not sure if it has the option to limit writes, like puppy?
From https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm...:
> Flash drive will last "forever"
> The default mode is to have a "save" icon on the desktop, to flush RAM to drive whenever you want, or not at all, or at shutdown. Thus, writes to the drive are severely constrained.