Maybe we should just reply to every thread with "install Gentoo".RU55EL wrote:Hey, while Gentoo is not the easiest OS to install, it is very configurable - meaning that you could build the OS with what you need and just what you need. A good thing if you only have 512MB RAM, and lots of spare time to configure the build.
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Debian 7 or 8 on 512MB RAM
Re: Debian 7 or 8 on 512MB RAM
Re: Debian 7 or 8 on 512MB RAM
Maybe we should not reply to every thread?Lysander wrote:Maybe we should just reply to every thread with "install Gentoo".RU55EL wrote:Hey, while Gentoo is not the easiest OS to install, it is very configurable - meaning that you could build the OS with what you need and just what you need. A good thing if you only have 512MB RAM, and lots of spare time to configure the build.
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Re: Debian 7 or 8 on 512MB RAM
I would respectfully disagreedebiman wrote:if you install debian without a graphical desktop (as it should be on a server), i don't think it makes a lot of difference which version you install.
The newest version of the Debian stable release includes all the latest upstream bug fixes (rather than patches applied by the Security Team) and Debian stretch now offers significant protection against ROP attacks [1] and is thus _much_ more secure than previous releases.
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