[rhelv6-beta-list] The minimum hardware requirement to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a 32-bit, x86 CPU with PAE support.

[Grant Williamson]

I suspect one user case scenario would be EL6 Live USB. If I were
travelling and using this, I would hope it would boot from most hardware.

On 06/16/2010 09:19 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:46:57AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>    
>> On 06/16/2010 10:19 AM, Grant Williamson wrote:
>>      
>>> I am kind of curious on why EL6 32 bit is PAE only. Can anyone shed
>>> any light on this, thanks.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589332
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> If I had to speculate, its because supporting code to handle the edge
>> case of someone running a 32 bit machine in 2010 that doesn't even
>> support PAE was considered  too much of a small-impact use case for
>> Redhat to spend money on. They would never gain/keep enough customers
>> over it to pay for the investment required to support it for the next
>> several years.
>>
>> I mean, really? The original reporter is running a *five year old
>> laptop*. That is quite old for a laptop. The *cheapest* laptop I found
>> on Newegg has a 64-bit CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 250GB of 7200 RPM disk all
>> for about $350 US. Far more than enough hardware to run a spanking new
>> OS.
>>
>>      
> PAE on 32bit also gives you NX security features..
>
> -- Pasi
>
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