Re: Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian)

2023-03-20 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 21/3/23 10:20, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On a tangent, I've just set up a Debian 11 Linode LEMP server with 1GB RAM and 10GB Disk. It's not in the least troubled by the limited memory. Also there is no swap in the default image - which seem sensible as it's on a SSD and you don't want to be

Re: Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian)

2023-03-20 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 21/3/23 10:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: So, maybe there's a "good" reason why Apple still configures their cheapest laptop with only 8GB of RAM: for "normal" work it's still perfectly sufficient, despite all the best efforts of web site designers out there. [ But I would recommend against

Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian)

2023-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V#ASIC_implementations.2C_i.e._.22real.22_CPU_chips > lists only "small" SoC systems , not something that looks like I would > like to compile something the size of LibreOffice on. In that list the > highest memory supported seems to be 8GB... Nowadays software seems