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[Moltke]

Just curious, whats the lowest RAM usage you can get with bare Debian after booting? i.e. Terminal command : watch free -h , lets say 30 secondes after startup disk activity

[member=6733]TheDead[/member] I don't know exactly what you mean by "bare Debian" but some months ago I was playing around in a VM with Debian 9 Stretch using the netinstall.iso. I didn't install many graphical programs and instead of a full feature DE i.e XFCE, I installed awesome-wm and some text based tools like ranger as file manager, cmus as music player, newsbeuter as feed reader, mutt as email client and a few others like Links2 as web browser. The experience was quite enjoyable and actually I grew fond of some of those like Links2 and cmus. I did so because that was the main purpose of it; learn how to manage in a cuasi-non graphical environment, meaning I wanted to improve my skills managing things from the command line and I kind of did 
Thing is, resource usage was really low; 103mb. Check it out: