Three middleweights
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"It's time for the bait-and-switch again. For anyone who came
here today hoping to see a mysterious and esoteric console program,
or a distro sculpted to fit on the head of a pin, I will disappoint
thee.
"Truth is, for every distro I find or that is suggested, I get
two more suggestions for distros I wouldn't put on a Pentium III,
let alone on a lowly 120Mhz Pentium.
"I mean that with no disrespect, and I certainly don't turn down
any suggestions I get. But it does mean that some people have
different understandings of "lightweight" than I.
"In that sense, here are three distros that I would call
"middleweights:" Too big to compete with us lowly basement
dwellers, but not necessarily in the same bracket as the
juggernauts out there"
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