Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 18:30:15 -0400
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopinth@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know
> why the RAM requirements showed here:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html
> are double the size of those displayed here:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s04.html.en
Curious. You seem to have hit two different version of the same page,
with one change.
>
> Excuse my ignorance, I have a bit old laptop and I don't know if it
> would be better
> to have Debian 9 so I can, possibly, load KDE on it, or instead
> Debian 10 but having to limit myself to lightweight applications only.
Tell us more about your laptop. Have you tried booting a Debian live CD
on it?
I have a Lenovo R51, with 1.2 GB of physical memory, and it runs at an
acceptable pace. However, I use XFCE rather than KDE. It is a much
lighter weight desktop and that helps in a constrained environment. You
might consider that.
I have four FIT-PC 1s, each with 223Mi of main memory, and they do just
fine headerless (with no desk-top). So you should be able to safely
undershoot the higher requirement version.
I recommend against Debian 9, as it is getting old. I generally
recommend keeping to the current Debian release for security reasons.
root@dragon:~# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1.2Gi 306Mi 142Mi 6.0Mi 803Mi 771Mi
Swap: 975Mi 4.0Mi 971Mi
Total: 2.2Gi 311Mi 1.1Gi
root@dragon:~#
>
> Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you could give me.
>
> PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know,
> I never used any before.
You are doing fine so far.
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