Which is the lightweight linux for virtualbox?

Question

I am completely new to Linux and I want to download and practice linux commands without letting go of my windows pc. I have a Dell Inspiron with 500 GB Hard Drive, 4 GB RAM and Pentium CPU B980 (2.4 GHz) processor with Windows 8.1 on it. I installed virtualbox and downloaded Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Mageia but they all are very slow. I checked all possible answers here and on other sites, but I am unable to make it run faster. I believe it's because all these Linux Distros(This is the fancy word that's used to name them right? ) have graphical interfaces. So is there a linux which comes with only command line interface and is pretty much LIGHTWEIGHT FOR "VIRTUALBOX"?

Thanks

P.S. I am totally new to Linux and I dont even know what it is properly. I just want to install it and practice few commands for now.

Thanks :D

Answer 1

You could try: http://puppylinux.org/

It's running even on my old netbook, your PC should be enough to work with it on VirtualBox.

Answer 2

I remember trying to find lightweight VirtualBox images or create them by uninstalling things and customising an image to work with fewer resources, but then I discovered...

Vagrant. I'm afraid it's another thing to install on the host machine, but I think it's pretty small alongside VirtualBox. Vagrant essentially gives a file driven and command line driven interface into VirtualBox, but in some ways the most useful thing are the "boxes". There's vagrant boxes for various OSs e.g. versions of ubuntu. They're essentially just images, but specially customised to run in a virtualised minimal command-line only way.

Answer 3

If you want console only, you could try Ubuntu Server. It comes without graphical interface. Or if you want to learn and suffer a bit, you culd try Archlinux:D Alternatively, you could give a shot to Lubuntu. This last one is my recommendation. Lubuntu wiki

Answer 4

I recommend trisquel mini is the best which is also ubuntu based. I am using it. It uses only 200 mb for running os for more information visit my https://hassan004.blogspot.com/2022/01/weight-linux-distro-trisquel-mini.html

Answer 5

I can see that this question has been answered a long time ago but i would like to suggest Linux Lite as they provide ready-made virtualbox and vmware downloads as well . It's based on Ubuntu LTS and comes with Xfce