On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 07:45:33 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:34:25PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > On 7/3/20 8:17 PM, Davide Lombardo wrote: > > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > > DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > > > I'm not sure what is minimum RAM requirement for Debian Linux kernel but > > I think that for desktop environment you'll need 1GB RAM at least. > > This machine fails to meet the minimum spec for current Debian versions. > You *might* be able to get it to boot with 64 MB of RAM, if you can > somehow manage to get Debian installed at all, but there are no > guarantees that even booting will work. As soon as you try to run any > applications or services, you'll almost certainly be thrashing swap. And > that's *without* X11. > > The latest version of Debian that supports installing and booting with > only 64 MB of RAM is wheezy (Debian 7), which is way beyond its end > of life.
One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd. The snag with systemd is that booting is massively parallel, just what you don't want. > If the OP could double the amount of RAM somehow, then it might be able > to run as some sort of minimal server (perhaps a static content web > server), but even then, it wouldn't be worth the time and (literal) > energy it would take. They could buy modern low-energy-consumption > hardware that would be immensely more powerful, and not very expensive. Cheers, David.
