On Wednesday 01 July 2009 02:27:01 Steven F. LeBrun wrote: > When I installed F11 on my Toshiba laptop, it installed the PAE version > of the kernel. I am assuming that my laptop has a CPU with Physical > Address Extensions functionality and can therefore address up to 64GB of > memory. > > My laptop only has 3 GB installed. Can anyone explain the pro's and > con's of using the PAE version of Linux kernel instead of the non-PAE > version? Other than PAE don't forget that those kernels support natively NX stack protection, while for the i686 kernel that is done through software emulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit This is a FAQ and I suppose it (should be)/is stored somewhere. :-) -- José Abílio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
