On Tue, 24 May 2022, IL Ka wrote:
RAM, disk space... and so on :/What makes you think so? One person on this thread said he runs Bullseye on a laptop from 2003. Linux itself is not resource hungry, only certain applications may have special requirements. What is your hardware, and which apps are you going to run there?
This isn't a perfect metric but it's what I have to hand: -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 34249604 May 8 16:36 tarfiles/bullseye.i386.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 33512108 May 8 16:50 tarfiles/bullseye.amd64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 32866580 May 8 14:56 tarfiles/sid.i386.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 32144452 May 8 15:10 tarfiles/sid.amd64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 31777976 May 8 17:31 tarfiles/bullseye.arm64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 30701772 May 8 17:10 tarfiles/bullseye.armel.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 30497140 May 8 15:52 tarfiles/sid.arm64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 29630360 May 8 15:30 tarfiles/sid.armel.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 29612380 May 8 18:02 tarfiles/buster.i386.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 28989832 May 10 16:40 tarfiles/buster.amd64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 27553280 May 8 18:51 tarfiles/buster.arm64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 26672068 May 8 18:32 tarfiles/buster.armel.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 26216548 May 8 19:17 tarfiles/stretch.i386.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 25744928 May 8 19:28 tarfiles/stretch.amd64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 24276996 May 8 20:23 tarfiles/jessie.i386.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 24256308 May 8 20:48 tarfiles/jessie.amd64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 24014860 May 8 19:43 tarfiles/stretch.armel.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 23905992 May 8 20:00 tarfiles/stretch.arm64.chroot.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-mirror apt-mirror 22621460 May 8 21:03 tarfiles/jessie.armel.chroot.tar.xz These are the minimal systems that are truely Debian - they have all the essential and required packages installed along with their dependencies and nothing else at all. Jessie is significantly smaller Tim.