Re: Very old hardware...

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Very old hardware...
Date	2020-07-06 18:00 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:19PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:25PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd.
> > > 
> > > Buster runs fine without systemd.
> > 
> > But probably not in 64 MB.
> 
> Most probably not. My (fairly minimal) system makes about 500M. Half
> of it is Firefox. One third of the rest is Emacs (with a fairly fat
> file loaded, mind you). But still X and PostfreSQL and...

A desktop is completely out of the question.  I don't know why people
keep bringing it up.

As a *server*, it is conceivable that one could get buster installed on
it somehow, configure it to use sysvinit instead of systemd, and actually
boot the thing.  I wouldn't care to attempt it, but it might actually
work.  Or it might not.

The closet I've come to this was with a mail server that I used to have,
which had 64 MB of RAM.  After upgrading it to jessie/stretch, things
started to go quite badly.  Eventually the machine died, and was
replaced.  Honestly, that should have happened much sooner.

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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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