On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 17:30:08 +0800, Bitfox wrote: > I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only 512mb > ram. > for this limited ram what debian release should be better to install?
They probably install Debian on it for you; you usually don't get to run the installer yourself. So you'd be starting with whatever version of Debian they provide, and whatever packages they include in their default installation. >From there, you can try to upgrade to a newer release, if you feel it's a good idea, *and* if the new release is supported on their virtualization platform. You'll need to learn which virtualization platform they're using, and take note of the limitations of that platform. For example, some platforms allow you to augment that 512 MB of RAM with swap, and others do not. Also, on some platforms, you will be booting a full virtual machine with its own kernel. On other platforms, you will be running in a container using the host's kernel. That host kernel may be quite a bit older than what a Debian release would typically use. In some cases, the kernel version may be so old that the Debian stable userland can't run on it. In those cases, you would need to know which is the newest version of Debian that you *can* run. In addition to platform concerns, you'll have to figure out what you're running on this VPS, how to make it all fit within the available RAM (with or without swap), and which Debian version(s) support your applications. For example, if you're running an application that only works in Python 2.x (such as, purely hypothetically, a MoinMoin wiki), you shouldn't upgrade to a version of Debian that has removed Python 2.x. Good luck!
