Re: Very old hardware...
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...
I can point to several VMs that are running useful things on
buster in just over 256MB of RAM -- 384 would provide a fair
amount of headroom.
nginx and mail and DNS and NTP and so forth, all at once.
I note that EBay has lots of used 256 and 512MB DDR RAM available for
nearly nothing -- $5 to $10, the shipping will be about the same --
and so making this a usable system is probably within reach.
-dsr-
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