On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 18:30:15 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know > why the RAM requirements showed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html > are double the size of those displayed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s04.html.en Curious. You seem to have hit two different version of the same page, with one change. > > Excuse my ignorance, I have a bit old laptop and I don't know if it > would be better > to have Debian 9 so I can, possibly, load KDE on it, or instead > Debian 10 but having to limit myself to lightweight applications only. Tell us more about your laptop. Have you tried booting a Debian live CD on it? I have a Lenovo R51, with 1.2 GB of physical memory, and it runs at an acceptable pace. However, I use XFCE rather than KDE. It is a much lighter weight desktop and that helps in a constrained environment. You might consider that. I have four FIT-PC 1s, each with 223Mi of main memory, and they do just fine headerless (with no desk-top). So you should be able to safely undershoot the higher requirement version. I recommend against Debian 9, as it is getting old. I generally recommend keeping to the current Debian release for security reasons. root@dragon:~# free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1.2Gi 306Mi 142Mi 6.0Mi 803Mi 771Mi Swap: 975Mi 4.0Mi 971Mi Total: 2.2Gi 311Mi 1.1Gi root@dragon:~# > > Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you could give me. > > PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know, > I never used any before. You are doing fine so far. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
