Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

[Conrad Meyer]

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 01:06:17 am Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

I have a P1 with 128M of memory running F9 just fine, I just keep it at 
runlevel 3. It works great.

-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>