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.
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Conrad Meyer <konrad(a)tylerc.org>