Michael Kjörling <[email protected]> writes: > I have successfully booted Debian Bookworm (without a GUI) on VMs with > slightly less than 256 MB RAM, so 512 MB should be plenty.
I guess that depends. I remember having a cheap or free trial VPS for a month with just 512 MB. Git ran out of RAM trying to check out the Linux kernel. Likewise Netbeans was crashing with memory issues when I tried to do some little Java programming for a course. Didn't try to setup paging, just let it go.
