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.