FunOS

Reader supplied reviews for FunOS Average rating 9.3 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on FunOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 25.0424.1024.04.222.04.5 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 24.04.2 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-21 Votes: 2 I’m running FunOS on two PCs: a brand new $99 Amazon mini PC and a 13-year-old i7-2600. It runs great on both. FunOS lets me run the latest Ubuntu LTS, and up-to-date apps, but with the feel of a stripped down Openbox distro circa 2012. Joe’s Window Manager is similar to Openbox except FunOS has broken down the JWM configuration into 8 easy-to-edit files. (This compares with the 1,000 line XML nightmare that configures Openbox.) Major changes I made to the install I use as my daily driver: I replaced the JWM panel with a Tint2 panel and substituted the Cinnamon Nemo file manager. The rest of the apps are the ones I always install. If you want an extremely bare bones Ubuntu, FunOS is a good starting point. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04.2 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-16 Votes: 1 Occupying the same ultra-light distro space as distros like Antix and Puppy Linux, this distro gets so much right but with some caveats. Unlike Antix you are not left to wait to update the locals for every region after some updates, and unlike puppy it does not run from ram which means it’s a lighter weight distro on RAM. On my 12-year-old Samsung laptop wit work really well and is very fast. Instillation is a breeze (if you follow the instructions on the distros webpage of not installing from the live environment). The Good You can make your own system from the bare bones installed base distro, so no preinstalled bloat. Works great on old hardware Idles around the 260-360 mb RAM mark Looks good Lots of themes / wallpapers Works with Ubuntu repositories The Bad You have to make your own system from the bare bones installed base distro (not beginner friendly). I could not see an app store but synaptic installs perfectly from the terminal. Basic apps like Gdebi and Office software need to be installed separately. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.10 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-05 Votes: 3 I think FunOs, is kinda fun. I noticed there was only one review, so I had to check out it. I think FunOS a lot better than some of the more popular distros which frankly are a pile of crap. I may be wrong, but I believe I could put a bunch of garbage on a DVD, submit it, and several people would give it a 10. I like FunOS because it's a minimal operating system, but like Bodhi, WattOS, and Xubuntu, it doesn't feel like one. FunOS looks good, is very stable, and is blazingly fast on my 15 year old laptop. So fast, I'm afraid to try it on a modern machine for fear it may get away from me. It comes with most of the programs you need to take care of business from the start. Apparently, if you need to add or remove some, you will have to use the command line, as I could not find a software system embedded. I personally would not use FunOS has a daily driver, but I enjoy playing around with it. FunOS is good to use as a back up if you have several other Linux operating systems on different partitions. Or if you're running out of options restoring that aging desktop. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of FunOS...