Re: RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Michael Simpson
> <mikie.simpson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> sorry for bumping the thread,
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589332
>>
>> not bug but feature.

Interesting, I didn't realize the Pentium M didn't have PAE support.

>> seems a shame to have built in obsolesence from RH.
>> also means "new" laptop i bought for the purpose of using 6 when it
>> comes won't work even though it is several generations of cpu newer
>> than my current CentOS5 laptop (pentium M 1.8GHz vs P3 700MHz).
>> fedora 12 runs well but i can't abide the churn.
>>
>
> I guess it comes down to diminishing returns. PAE has been around for
> a few years and it may not be worth the effort for that prominent
> vendor to provide support for 5 year old, non-server systems that may
> be just fractions of their market.
>
> However, it's *just* a kernel... Kernels are relatively easy to build
> and don't necessarily affect much in the user space. You may be able
> to take the CentOS image, once it's ready, then rebuild with a non-PAE
> kernel.

In fact centos already makes i586 kernels for centos5.  I wouldn't be
surprised if they did the same for centos6.
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