Breathe new life into your old PC with WattOS R9 and ZRAM ZSWAP Breathe new life into your old computer with the lightweight distro WattOS R9. It uses Ubuntu as the upstream distro and built the latest version from 14.04 LTS for long term support and stability. WattOS R9 comes installed with the LXDE desktop enviornment ( LXDE is a lightweight desktop alternative to Unity, GNOME and KDE. Its ideal for old computers or anyone looking for a fast, lightweight system. Its even lighter than Xubuntus XFCE). The installation process is similar to the one of Ubuntu 14.04 (see how to install Ubuntu 14.04 here ). For 768 MB RAM or less: enable zRam: zram (also called zRAM and, initially, compcache) is a Linux kernel feature that provides a form of virtual memory compression When your computer has very little RAM (768 MB or less), then of course your best choice is a lightweight member of the Ubuntu family, like Lubuntu. But even then the lack of memo...
