On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I read not too long ago that one of the major distros is switching to > PAE by default but I forget which distro, maybe Ubuntu. > > Has arch considered PAE by default. It has been discussed repeatedly in the past. Consensus seems to be that it is a bad idea. E.g.: <http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-October/014142.html>, or <http://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/linus-torvalds-about-pae/>.