[CentOS] non PAE support

[Michael Simpson]

On 28 July 2011 03:09, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:39:55 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Always Learning wrote:
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>> > On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
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>> >> you can build the kernel RPM on any other similar environment, and ....
>> >> WHY ARE YOU/WE WASTING Y/OUR TIME ON A 6  YR OLD LAPTOP???

6r old laptops owned by parents or grandparents may be one of the
targets for centos6.

The amount of time i spend providing tech support for my parents has
decreased by several orders of magnitude by converting them onto
centos5 a few years ago and i can even support them remotely (using an
old 256MB dell latitude L400 that is perfectly happy running 5.6 and
is my daily use computer)
It seems that by excluding what are relatively modern CPUs in order to
drop support for the original pentium chip is a bit short sighted
(especially when fedora still allows non-PAE)

"ok mum, lets get you setup with centos6..oh dear.. it looks like you
bought your laptop at exactly the wrong period in intel's mobile cpu
history...unlucky. Ah well, lets go down to $PC_VENDOR and get you
something with m$'s latest rubbish on it. Bring your purse"

my prediction for rhel 7 - if your chip doesn't do VT-d  then no
goodness for you (eg if you buy a i5-2500k rather than the i5-2500 -
same ****** processor but with one hand intel giveth and with the
other they take away)

</rant>

mike