Ubuntu
linux-lts-raring package

  1. Bug #1260856
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1260856

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72retro (i72-833713) wrote :

mmm interesting i just found this information:

"The Linux kernel includes full PAE mode support starting with version 2.3.23, with Linus Torvalds mentioning PAE's 4 MB page support in 1.3.15, enabling access of up to 64 GB of memory on 32-bit machines. A PAE-enabled Linux kernel requires that the CPU also support PAE. The Linux kernel supports PAE as a build option and major distributions provide a PAE kernel either as the default or as an option. As of 2009, some common Linux distributions have started to use a PAE-enabled kernel as the distribution-specific default. As of 2012, common Linux distributions have stopped distributing non-PAE kernels, thus making PAE hardware mandatory - examples being Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS from version 6.0, Ubuntu (and derivatives like Linux Mint) from 12.10. Fedora and Debian still distribute both PAE and non-PAE kernels.
NX bit feature will not work if the kernel was built without PAE support."

So i will get the 12.04 like you recommended earlier and try to build from there.

72retro