It lets users create their own personal wattOS system

Sep 25, 2016 21:40 GMT  ·  By

After releasing the LXDE edition of wattOS 10 at the beginning of the month, developer Ronald Ropp now announced the availability of the Microwatt Edition, which includes less of everything when compared to its bigger brother.

As its name suggests, wattOS 10 Microwatt Edition is a slimmed-down version of the Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution designed to be used in households where people want to be eco-friendly and consume less power when working on their personal computers. It can be installed on old PCs from 10 years ago with 128 MB of RAM.

The best part of the wattOS 10 Microwatt Edition is that it can be bent to your likings. You can turn it into anything you want, a smart server, a powerful workstation, you name it. It doesn't include anything by default, not even a web browser or music player, so you'll have to install them.

"We are calling this release the 'do what you want' release. We have eliminated things that people normally change like preferred web browser, music player, graphics editors/viewers, etc. and replaced them with…….nothing," reads the release announcement. "You get to choose rather than uninstall, change, etc."

Based on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, powered by Linux kernel 4.4 LTS

Being powered by Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus), wattOS 10 Microwatt Edition uses its long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel, but it is built around the i3 tiling window manager 4.11, which is designed for power users. A minimalistic WebKit-based web browser is installed, namely Surf 0.7, to help you configure your system.

Additionally, users will find the PCManFM 1.2.4 file manager and Mupdf 1.7a-1 minimalistic PDF viewer, along with the PowerTOP power management utility in case you are installing wattOS 10 Microwatt Edition on a laptop and you want to optimize the battery usage. Download wattOS 10 Microwatt Edition right now via our website.