In general, that is the

top

command.
In order for it to sort processes by memory usage, you must press ">".

At the risk of expressing my unprofessional opinion.
My netbook has EXEGNU/LINUX and PCLinuxOS installed with the same version of Trinity.
Here are the vmlinux and kernel initrd sizes.
PCLinuxOS -6354752 and 10711.
EXE GNU/LINUX-15472331 and 20007021.
Which one do you think will work faster?
Maybe start with this?

Here are the requirements for Trinity - "Trinity desktop - 300MHz CPU / 256MB RAM / 3GB disk".
https://q4os.org/downloads1.html
Yes, it will work, but any program you download will be, figuratively speaking, in swap. Who today has the patience for such feats?

If we divide computers into workstations and servers (including media servers), then everything will fall into place and the framebuffer will find its place, as I understand it.

And there have already been attempts, with the help of a stripped-down Linux, to make a netbook, limiting the size of the memory and the performance of the processor. Nothing good happened.

@dev-1-dash-1

Yes, you are right, thanks.
When booted from /sdb, it becomes hd0.
The configuration of one of my computers is the same as yours, so I made sure in practice.

Regards.

@dev-1-dash-1
Maybe I'm wrong, but there is a mistake in your very first post.

set root="hd1,9"

is the /sdb drive and you are looking for the image
to

fromiso=/dev/sda9

, this is the /sda drive.
  Here's another working version. For other distributions, the path to the bootloader and initrd files may differ.

menuentry "openSUSE" {
  set isofile=/openSUSE.iso
  set root=(hd0,1)
  loopback loop $isofile
  linux (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux install=hd:$isofile
  initrd (loop)/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd
}

PS. With such a record, this error is excluded.

Book
ecclesiaste
or Preacher
"9. What was, is what will be; and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."

At the risk of expressing the view of an ordinary user.
All this is reminiscent of the debate around Christianity, "Who is the most faithful follower?"

In fact, the user needs an OS with a "human" interface, working "out of the box" to run user programs.
Sense from advanced distributions that work mainly in the console or for which you must first find out and download the necessary drivers?
This is used by others, compare installing debian and Q4os for example.
Although, on the other hand, the diversity of Linux inspires optimism, stagnation is worse.

@Head_on_a_Stick

I'm sorry to bother you, if you have the desire and opportunity...
This is a 2-bit (out of 16 standard) recording of a piece of music.
Can you hear it through your headphones and USB sound card?
Can you name the artist?

http://ant-audio.co.uk/test/2bit_fragment.zip

PS. There is nothing more than an interest in the capabilities of modern devices.

If you have a more or less modern computer, I would install Q4os, it is the same debian with systemd, but with a "human" interface for installing non-free programs.
And so, you need to install a proprietary driver for the video card.

Regards.

@steve_v
"...Because unless you have bleeding-edge hardware, there's nothing whatsoever to be gained from a shiny-new-shit kernel except aggravation..."

I fully support!
As one of the Linux gurus said long ago, "If everything works as it should, why upgrade?"

Regards.

Everything is clear here, except for one thing - what is the purpose of this whole undertaking?

Get speed, it will not work. Two distributions on my computer, exegnu64_chimaera-20220306 and community-pclinuxos64 with 6.0xx kernel, DE Trinity one version. There is no particular difference.

Minimalism? It turns into the need to keep a bunch of bash commands in your head.

Safety? In more than 20 years of using Linux, the worst thing that has happened is a hung browser.

There are no miracles, the kernel is "sharpened" for the latest processors, and developers are interested in them.

And the second, of course, depends on the purpose of the computer.
For uninterrupted access to Privat24 or to my wife's computer, I will never install a release other than "stable".

But, in any case, it's your computer and your decision.

Regards.

Maybe try that?

mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … varfs.html

Regards.