Re: An old box running Debian 8

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 11/12/20 4:52 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> 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
I have been only cursorily following here, since I don't use debian, but 
I wonder if you might
consider upgrading your mother board to a new one the same size and 
shape, with
a faster processor and probably more ram. Then the latest version of deb 
would surely work
and well. It's a full afternoon's worth of work, more than likely, but 
you would have to see
if you think it's worth it. A lot cheaper than replacing the whole 
machine, surely.
--doug