Re: An old box running Debian 8
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:01:19PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> At first, I wondered whether Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM, would
> make it even bootable after upgrading 8 to 9. (Without any GUI, if needed to
> be removed before the upgrade).
Yes, it will boot, assuming the upgrade is done successfully. You are
well above the minimum RAM requirements for Debian 9 (or 10). IIRC the
minimum RAM requirement is around 80 MB for post-wheezy versions. It
was 64 MB for wheezy.
> And when bootable, what GUI might be workable at best (Mate, Xfce, ...)?
I would go with a traditional window manager, not a desktop environment.
> At this stage (Debian 8) I do that in MATE + Thunderbird. It's slow but
> works. What is not known is whether that would work in Debian 9.
There's only one way to be sure. I have no idea how much memory
Thunderbird uses. It should "work", but if Thunderbird wants more
than 200 MB of RAM, it'll probably swap too much for comfort.
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