On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:15:56PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-06-30 at 09:31 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
* Daniel Fuhrmann [2008-06-30 09:11]:
When Pae works almost on every "normal and newer" machine why pae isn't default and we distribute an nonpae kernel?
We can discuss days how we name kernels but wouldn't that give the user *any* benefit beside of making the update harder?
Many users are confused about this pae thing. They don't know what is it for, what benefits or disadvantages may it have, why they have to use a pae kernel if they only have 1 GiB, whether a 64 bit cpu uses it or not (being an intel only thing?), whether it is slower... this is oss, but clear, authoritative info is not so easy to find.
There is no mention in the release notes about "pae".
Some users are tempted to force a different kernel.
The fun thing is that the pae kernel is a 32bit issue. 64bit (x86_64) users just get kernel-default. ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org