On Tue 25 Jul 2023 at 08:18:21 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 07:53:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Source Code wrote:
> > > 3. Is it possible to reduce RAM consumption? And minimize it? Let's say up
> > > to 100-200 mb?
> >
> > That depends on what you choose to run, and how. I would not
> > recommend trying to do anything interesting on a machine with
> > less than 256MB of RAM. That will not be enough for many common
> > uses.
>
> According to <https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/ch03s04.en.html>
> 256 MB is the absolute minimum amount of RAM for installing bookworm
> on an AMD64 machine, using the text installer and no GUI packages.
The numbers on that page look rather suspect (as unchanged since
bullseye) and inconsistent ("With swap enabled, it is possible to
install Debian with as little as 350MB").
But that said, I have installed bookworm (standard system utilities
& SSH server) on a 512MB i386 laptop with no swap. (I add the 1GB
encrypted swap later.) I gave up trying to run Firefox since buster,
but that's more to do with FF versions rather than Debian, I think.
Cheers,
David.
