On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 05:29 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:10 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > And it might be non-obvious, but some CPUs (e.g. the one in my > > not-so-old laptop) don't support PAE, so making the default kernel use > > PAE would make debian unbootable on them. > > Because it's too hard to have ubiquity run a script that checks if the > processor supports PAE and then enable it by default if it does, right? > >
Sorry, I didn't check the list, not Ubiquity. Not enough coffee in the world this morning, I thought this was Ubuntu lists >.> Also to add, the benefits of NX on PAE far outweigh those of not having PAE, unless it's found that there are a significant amount of users on Debian who do in-fact use old /old/ hardware. With it recently being found that Linux is in-fact more popular than Mac OS X it might be best to start forcing some sort of basic security on users so they don't get had easily? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1286879680.2459.15.ca...@envygeeks