Re: Debian for Limited memory
On 17 Jul 2024 05:33 +0800, from jeff@simplemail.co.in (Jeff Pang):
> My tiny vps from vultr has 512m ram only (it’s 2.5usd/m so cheap).
>
> Should I install debian 9 in it for this limited memory?
Definitely not, because Debian 9 is LONG out of support. (It's
Freexian ELTS only since mid-2022, and ships packages that essentially
were current in early 2017, so some seven years old by now.)
Debian 12 will boot in 256 MB RAM (I think that's the minimum
supported configuration on amd64, which your VPS very likely is) and a
minimal system will consume a fair bit less than that after booting;
so depending on what you want that VPS to do, 512 MB RAM should be
plenty. And you can always add swap to it if you don't want to splurge
on an additional RAM allocation.
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