On Jo, 12 nov 20, 15:07:48, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:40:50 +0100 > Miroslav Skoric <skoric@uns.ac.rs> 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? > > You are trying to do what we call in the US, a Fool's Errand, that > is, a fruitless undertaking. If you could upgrade the RAM to 512MB or > even 1 GB, you might get usable performance with Debian 8 and a > lightweight GUI environment or, better yet, a window manager, but > certainly not with GNOME or KDE. Let me give you an example: > > About 10 years ago, I installed Debian 7 on an Asus EeePC 900 with a > 900MHz Celeron and 512MB RAM. I tried GNOME first, but even then it was > too much a resources behemoth to even work. LXDE was lighter; > however, even with only a browser running, system performance was > slow, but usable, if you were patient. Upgrading RAM to 1GB made all > the difference in the world turning a barely usable system into one > that while not screaming fast was adequate for simple web browsing, > video streaming, email, etc. which was what it was intended for. Fast storage (SSD) would also make a big difference, though it's likely that machine has only PATA ports. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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