On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:01:19PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > At first, I wondered whether Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM, would > make it even bootable after upgrading 8 to 9. (Without any GUI, if needed to > be removed before the upgrade).
Yes, it will boot, assuming the upgrade is done successfully. You are well above the minimum RAM requirements for Debian 9 (or 10). IIRC the minimum RAM requirement is around 80 MB for post-wheezy versions. It was 64 MB for wheezy. > And when bootable, what GUI might be workable at best (Mate, Xfce, ...)? I would go with a traditional window manager, not a desktop environment. > At this stage (Debian 8) I do that in MATE + Thunderbird. It's slow but > works. What is not known is whether that would work in Debian 9. There's only one way to be sure. I have no idea how much memory Thunderbird uses. It should "work", but if Thunderbird wants more than 200 MB of RAM, it'll probably swap too much for comfort.
