Re: An old box running Debian 8
Miroslav Skoric composed on 2020-11-11 17:40 (UTC+0100):
> I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running
> ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after
> starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at
> all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any experience with such old boxes?
Which WM or DE is your GUI running? Some use/need a lot more RAM than others. If
you want a full DE you might wish to try TDE, a fork of KDE3 initially created
when KDE went to version 4, 10 years ago. Its latest release is available for
Squeeze, Wheezy, Jesse, Stretch and Buster.
<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions>
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