On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:47:19PM +0200, to...@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, to...@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.
