On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:31:51PM -0500, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 2/7/2022 10:50 AM, 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 > > Based on what others are saying, it looks like a typical modern Debian > desktop environment such as Gnome or Plasma KDE will not work well with such > an old system. I suggest you look for a Distro that is tailored for old > hardware.
Bah, silly. Just use a traditional window manager instead of a bloated Desktop Environment. Problem solved. But the *real* problem will come when they try to run a web browser. That's where the truly massive memory demand is. 756 MB is plenty of RAM for daily use of everything except a web browser.