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Omega Linux is a lightweight Linux distro.
Based on Arch, Omega is a rolling release.
Omega is free to install and use.
Do you have an old PC lying around just waiting to serve as your secondary desktop machine, or a way to take your first steps with Linux?
Maybe you want to skip the Ubuntu track and go with a Linux distribution that is regularly updated, lightweight, blazingly fast, and incredibly reliable. If that's the case, don't overlook Omega Linux.
Omega Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution that was created to be an OS perfectly suited for older, lesser-powered hardware. This distro can run on:
1GB of RAM
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