On 2022-02-07 10:50, William Lee Valentine wrote:
I am wondering whether a current Debian distribution can be installed and run on an older Pentium III computer. (I have Debian 11.2 on a DVD.) The computer is Dell Dimension XPS T500: Intel Pentium III processor (Katnai) memory: 756 megabytes, running at 500 megahertz IDE disc drive: 60 gigabytes Debian partition: currently 42 gigabytes Debian 6.0: Squeeze If I install Debian 11.2, will it run on this machine? Will it preserve the files and directories that I have on Squeeze?
My main worry would be performance if you use GUI applications. I don't know what apps you use, but browsers and desktop environments have probably gotten real greedy in terms of RAM since Squeeze and <1 GB is a very small amount of RAM these days.
I am not subscribed to this mailing list. I would appreciate advices.
I have BCC'd you but please follow your thread on the archives (or via one of the news relays):
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/threads.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00187.html Bijan