On 2022-02-07 10:50, William Lee Valentine wrote:
I am wondering whether a current Debian distribution can be installed
and run on an older Pentium III computer. (I have Debian 11.2 on a DVD.)
The computer is
Dell Dimension XPS T500: Intel Pentium III processor (Katnai)
memory: 756 megabytes, running at 500 megahertz
IDE disc drive: 60 gigabytes
Debian partition: currently 42 gigabytes
Debian 6.0: Squeeze
If I install Debian 11.2, will it run on this machine? Will it preserve
the files and directories that I have on Squeeze?
My main worry would be performance if you use GUI applications. I don't
know what apps you use, but browsers and desktop environments have
probably gotten real greedy in terms of RAM since Squeeze and <1 GB is a
very small amount of RAM these days.
I am not subscribed to this mailing list. I would appreciate advices.
I have BCC'd you but please follow your thread on the archives (or via
one of the news relays):
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/threads.html
and
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00187.html
Bijan