Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL
Date	2023-05-20 18:30 +0200
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Greg Wooledge [2023-05-20 11:23:27] wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:36:21AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I was still able to use Debian on a (headless, armhf) 512MB machine
>> without too much suffering two years ago, but I suspect that less than
>> that might be impractical.
> Depends on what you plan to use it for.  That amount of RAM would be
> unacceptable for a desktop environment running one of the major web
> browsers, but it might be perfectly fine for, say, a DNS server.  Maybe
> even overkill.

For the day-to-day operation, you're probably right (512MB was plenty
for most of the services that machine offered).
"impractical" was referring to running APT, mostly, tho it may also
depend on how many packages you have installed.

        Stefan

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i386: Geode LX and NOPL James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> - 2023-05-20 10:30 +0200
  Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-05-20 15:50 +0200
  Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-20 16:40 +0200
    Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-05-20 17:30 +0200
      Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-20 18:30 +0200

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