[CentOS] RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

Thu May 13 11:01:13 UTC 2010
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Michael Simpson
<mikie.simpson at 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.