Eric Paris wrote:
I've got a P3 (Coppermine) with 256M memory running F10. My significant other took it with her to Antarctica (Well F9 has been to Antarctica but it'll be F10 in Antarctica next month). You can only run one app at a time and have to be patient, but it's perfectly usable (and noone cares if this laptop is lost, stolen or destroyed [aside from her being pissed she lost all her research data]). I wouldn't/couldn't to use it as a daily machine, so while I'm in favor of -PAE default, F10 is "usable" on such small machines. I don't care if old machines need some bit twiddling to get to work, but we aren't dead yet :)
By F12 you'll be down to zero apps at the same time, and slow...
We can keep the non-PAE kernel, but as non-default in recognition that technology has moved on.