Four Debian 13 Boxes, One Brief: 1,923 Packages on Metal, 328 in the Cloud
This article covers one afternoon of running the same Debian 13 on four machines — one laptop and three clouds — and asking each of them the same question about its own hardware. A cloud image is not a small Debian. It is a different bet about what you will need. The laptop install carries 1,923 packages. The three cloud images carry 328, 337 and 350. That is not a rounding difference, and the…
Four Debian 13 machines were set up for testing in this article. One was a laptop and the other three were cloud-based. The laptop install contained 1,923 packages while the three cloud images contained 328, 337, and 350 packages respectively. All four machines booted from NVMe storage, but only two of them had tools capable of reading NVMe health logs.
This created a gap where the hardware was present, but the default tools could not detect it. The article highlights that cloud images do not come with firmware packages or logs, and the user needs to manually check for this information.
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