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Re: Very old hardware...

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On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 07:45:33 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:34:25PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> > On 7/3/20 8:17 PM, Davide Lombardo wrote:
> > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs:
> > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz;
> > > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR 
> 
> > I'm not sure what is minimum RAM requirement for Debian Linux kernel but
> > I think that for desktop environment you'll need 1GB RAM at least.
> 
> This machine fails to meet the minimum spec for current Debian versions.
> You *might* be able to get it to boot with 64 MB of RAM, if you can
> somehow manage to get Debian installed at all, but there are no
> guarantees that even booting will work.  As soon as you try to run any
> applications or services, you'll almost certainly be thrashing swap.  And
> that's *without* X11.
> 
> The latest version of Debian that supports installing and booting with
> only 64 MB of RAM is wheezy (Debian 7), which is way beyond its end
> of life.

One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd.
The snag with systemd is that booting is massively parallel,
just what you don't want.

> If the OP could double the amount of RAM somehow, then it might be able
> to run as some sort of minimal server (perhaps a static content web
> server), but even then, it wouldn't be worth the time and (literal)
> energy it would take.  They could buy modern low-energy-consumption
> hardware that would be immensely more powerful, and not very expensive.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Very old hardware... Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2020-07-03 20:50 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-06 13:50 +0200
    Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-06 17:20 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-06 17:40 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-06 17:40 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-06 17:50 +0200
            Re: Very old hardware... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-06 18:00 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-06 19:20 +0200
                Re: Very old hardware... Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-07-06 23:50 +0200
                Re: Very old hardware... Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 20:20 +0200
                Re: Very old hardware... davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-07-08 02:40 +0200
                Re: Very old hardware... davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-07-08 03:20 +0200
            Re: Very old hardware... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-06 18:00 +0200

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