On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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.