Re: Very old hardware...
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:19PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:25PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:13:14AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > One of the benefits of wheezy is that you don't get systemd.
> > >
> > > Buster runs fine without systemd.
> >
> > But probably not in 64 MB.
>
> Most probably not. My (fairly minimal) system makes about 500M. Half
> of it is Firefox. One third of the rest is Emacs (with a fairly fat
> file loaded, mind you). But still X and PostfreSQL and...
A desktop is completely out of the question. I don't know why people
keep bringing it up.
As a *server*, it is conceivable that one could get buster installed on
it somehow, configure it to use sysvinit instead of systemd, and actually
boot the thing. I wouldn't care to attempt it, but it might actually
work. Or it might not.
The closet I've come to this was with a mail server that I used to have,
which had 64 MB of RAM. After upgrading it to jessie/stretch, things
started to go quite badly. Eventually the machine died, and was
replaced. Honestly, that should have happened much sooner.
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