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Debian 12 Discussion - benefits & disadvantages
Jasonhyperhost
Member, Patron Provider
in General
Hey Guys , with the New Debian 12 have many used it yet & production benefits & disadvantages anyone has had so far know its very early on.
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The only disadvantage I see so far based on what some providers are recommending is that the newer Debian (I believe that is 12?) uses more ram so they are recommending vps higher than 1gb which might just be a sales tactic (?). I assume a lean version would be able to run on less than 1 gb but not tested.
Python seems to have some issues.
6.1 kernel is awesome! We're using Debian 12 on our new hypervisors and will upgrade older ones over time.
advantage is new.
disadvantage is new.
PHP8, if that's your thing
It features some things new but meaningless to low-ends
disadvantage: unable to uninstall perl-modules package
Debian 12 uses more RAM.
True. It seems Debian becomes bloated?
According to my recollection, after I upgraded from Debian11 to Debian12 before, the memory usage did not change.
But after my clean install yesterday, the memory usage increased significantly.
The OS is new so need to expect some issues, similar to PHP7 when the new version was just released had ridiculous amount of bugs
Would really like to hear RAM usage feedback from fellow low-enders (both KVM and OpenVZ).
Hope that 1GB+ requirement is for the full ISO, not for the minimal one,
Naturally, how much RAM you need also depends on how much you want to run
That said, the Installation Guide says:
( https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/ch02s05.en.html )
Just upgraded my 512MB memory KVM (E5-2680 v2) VPS from bullseye to bookworm and nothing too drastic so far. No tweaking or anything, just direct dist upgrade & reboot.
Yesterday upgraded & rebooted 2GB memory KVM (AMD Ryzen 9 7950X) VPS:
Yesterday upgraded & rebooted 2GB memory KVM (CPU E5-2698 v4) VPS:
Yesterday upgraded & rebooted 2GB memory lxc (CPU E5-2680 v4) VPS: