Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p
On Thu, 11 May 2023 14:41:19 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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
This is true with my experience. I've been able to run FVWM on a 7248
with 192MiB of RAM, although with a different OS.
-Tim
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