Linuxmint 17 Installation

Clived · 09-03-2014, 03:53 PM

Hello

I installed Linuxmint 17 a few days ago, and having gotten past a few glitches, I am really enjoying it. One small mystery - my computer has a PAE enabled cpu and I guess I expected the installation to install a PAE enabled kernel. uname - r says generic instead of PAE. When I run the free command, it shows my full 4 gigs of ram which implies that my installation is PAE compliant even with a generic kernel.
Not sure what I am missing here, but any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks

Clive

michaelk · 09-03-2014, 04:08 PM

Mint is base on Ubuntu which compiles PAE support into the kernel by default since 12.10 (had to go look up the version...)

Clived · 09-03-2014, 08:19 PM

Thanks MichaelK

So I guess I did not have to see PAE when I did a uname -a.

Thank you