Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
...
> Hello.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you could give me.

  my preference with that little memory would be to install a
lightweight desktop (i use MATE and that works fine for my
purposes).


> PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know,
> I never used any before.

  only that i wish people would stop posting HTML.


  songbird