On 08/29/11 3:20 AM, ken wrote: > Snob appeal does work on a lot of people. Maybe in today's world it's a > character flaw, but I prefer actual reasons. how "passive-aggressive" of you. There's nothing 'snob' about it, it is a simple technical and financial decision. RHEL targets SERVERS, and every server made since about 1996 has 64bit capable processors, or at least PAE support in 32bit mode. in 2011, 4GB of memory is $20 worth, and without PAE or 64bit, you can't support more. put very simply, your ?? year old muttbox is not within Red Hat's target market for new versions of Enterprise Linux, they saw no justification in having to generate and test a seperate kernel for low end hardware older than 5+ years, and committing to updates for it for the next 6 years. You can continue to run EL 5 on it for years to come. Or choose any number of other Linux distributions which target down rev hardware. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast