Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 09:06:17 UTC 2009


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.

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