Freshly installed Debian 13 Linux on a server just uses 270MB of RAM. Of course, once I install PgSQL, Redis, Apache 2/Nginx or Lighttpd, Python/PHP/Docker, etc., it will eat up 10GB. It is amazing how much good Debian is as compared to other bloated OSes out there, and it is all free. I can't believe that. Thank you all Debian devs for keeping it real.
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"Just" 270 MB for...an idle server?
Debian is still a great distribution but let's measure the ram consumption of a freshly installed *BSD or Illumos based server. The numbers are totally different.
