Re: An old box running Debian 8

[Miroslav Skoric <skoric@uns.ac.rs>]

On 11/11/20 7:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

> > 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>

It is MATE (cannot remember the version). At first I removed all 
graphics, so it remained CLI-only Jesse. Then I installed Mate from the 
repository. Just for occasional use, not 24/7.

Btw, I did not even think of KDE or Gnome because they both were 
terribly slow even in Wheezy.

Did not much test MATE vs. Xfce or LXDE, regarding the speed.


Misko