On 11/12/20 4:52 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
On 11/11/20 7:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running
ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after
starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at
all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any experience with such old boxes?
Which WM or DE is your GUI running? Some use/need a lot more RAM than
others. If
you want a full DE you might wish to try TDE, a fork of KDE3
initially created
when KDE went to version 4, 10 years ago. Its latest release is
available for
Squeeze, Wheezy, Jesse, Stretch and Buster.
<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions>
It is MATE (cannot remember the version). At first I removed all
graphics, so it remained CLI-only Jesse. Then I installed Mate from
the repository. Just for occasional use, not 24/7.
Btw, I did not even think of KDE or Gnome because they both were
terribly slow even in Wheezy.
Did not much test MATE vs. Xfce or LXDE, regarding the speed.
Misko
I have been only cursorily following here, since I don't use debian, but
I wonder if you might
consider upgrading your mother board to a new one the same size and
shape, with
a faster processor and probably more ram. Then the latest version of deb
would surely work
and well. It's a full afternoon's worth of work, more than likely, but
you would have to see
if you think it's worth it. A lot cheaper than replacing the whole
machine, surely.
--doug
