On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
sorry for bumping the thread,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589332
not bug but feature. 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.