05-29-2025, 05:04 PM
I've been investigating lightweight programs that run well on limited resource systems for a long while now. Was excited to see a new version of DSL and very curious to see which applications it would include. I love some of the choices such as using AntiX as a starting point and including programs like nano and sylpheed. Thought it might be fun to start a thread to discuss other lightweight applications that should work well on older computers.
Some of the programs I like are sdlbook and pdftxt for PDF viewing, diffh for graphically displaying differences from diff, abc2midi and abcm2ps for music creation, picaxo (lightweight graphics viewer using SDL), Netrider or Fifth (webkit based web browsers) and DPlus web browser (Dillo fork). sdcv (command line dictionary program, a fork removes glib dependency), ckpass (curses front end to view keepass information), grafx2 or lodepaint (graphics editors), fm (SDL based file manager), flrec/sox (audio player/recorder), nbsdgames (more games along the lines of bsdgames). There are several others I enjoy building from source and working with too.
I've been trying to move away from heavier GUI toolkits such as GTK and Qt and switch to more lightweight alternatives like FLTK, SDL, Raylib and/or BSDCurses. Would be curious to hear about other people's favorite lightweight programs.
Some of the programs I like are sdlbook and pdftxt for PDF viewing, diffh for graphically displaying differences from diff, abc2midi and abcm2ps for music creation, picaxo (lightweight graphics viewer using SDL), Netrider or Fifth (webkit based web browsers) and DPlus web browser (Dillo fork). sdcv (command line dictionary program, a fork removes glib dependency), ckpass (curses front end to view keepass information), grafx2 or lodepaint (graphics editors), fm (SDL based file manager), flrec/sox (audio player/recorder), nbsdgames (more games along the lines of bsdgames). There are several others I enjoy building from source and working with too.
I've been trying to move away from heavier GUI toolkits such as GTK and Qt and switch to more lightweight alternatives like FLTK, SDL, Raylib and/or BSDCurses. Would be curious to hear about other people's favorite lightweight programs.