On Friday 09 July 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: > In light of Frans' concern perhaps consider dropping 686 instead of 486? > I think that will result in 686-bigmem being installed on systems which > would have previously got 686 (I can confirm if necessary). This isn't > necessarily a bad thing -- it enables NX support for one thing which is > generally desirable.
Last I know is that -bigmem is significantly slower on a lot of hardware than the plain 686 kernel. Also, in most cases the 64-bit -amd64 flavor is a *lot* better choice for most i386 users that have systems that have large memory or want NX support. We've had this discussion before! Multiple times. > FWIW RHEL 6 (the beta at least) ships with only a PAE (aka 686-bigmem) > kernel, I guess things are heading that way generally. I don't really care that much what RH does TBH. And I don't believe it's true anyway: things are moving towards 64-bit, not 32-bit with NX. Isn't perl going to be dropping from the netinsts now and won't that be sufficient? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007091807.16732.elen...@planet.nl
