Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?
Avi Kivity
avi at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 09:41:04 UTC 2009
Christopher Brown wrote:
> May I point out that those that care enough to want PAE usually know
> how to go about getting it enabled whereas those that have install
> failure because they're running non-PAE hardware probably wont know
> how to go about getting it disabled.
>
You mean, ordinary users don't care about security? Because that's one
of the advantages that PAE brings.
You're right, they don't care, we have to care for them.
> The fall-out from this going onto the livecd makes me shudder.
>
You're pushing out a development problem to the users.
> The original argument that many machines have 4GB of memory is simply
> false.
My ~3yo home box has 4GB. I'm not an ordinary user (or it would be a
computer, not a "box"), but I don't think you can claim 4GB is rare.
> Manufacturers aren't shipping anything more than 2GB on
> desktops at most unless you have oodles of money to throw at a
> Alienware box or something. Sure, servers come with more but Fedora is
> not really a reality for a long term server O.S
Servers should use x86_64 anyway. But I strongly disagree about
penalizing the future to cater for the past.
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