Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p
On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 08:21 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well I have seen lots of people say woody worked on that machine.
> Not sure how late support for that hardware stuck around. After all
> 192MB ram and 133MHz 604 is not a lot of resources. I am not sure how
> late Debian would have supported installing on a machine with that little
> ram, assuming you have it maxed out, which it might not be.
192 MB is more than enough provided you're not trying to run a fully fledged
desktop such as KDE or GNOME. Lean window managers like FVWM should still
work.
My Amiga 4000 has 128 MB RAM and no memory issues being a headless system.
Adrian
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