22 Dec
2008
22 Dec
'08
09:56
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:03:31AM -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
Ok, on 11.0 the pae kernel install seems to have been a mistake, but on the two 11.1 install, both have been pae kernels, which leavse me wondering why a simple 32bit AMD Athlon system requires anything other than the default kernel.
PAE kernel is used to get more than 3GB memory support and also to get "NX" (no execute) page protection abilities against some kinds of heap and stack overflow security issues. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org