Posted August 8th, 2009 by vivekvyas13jul1992

hi i am new to Linux Journal
as i had upgraded
elx kernel-2.4.xx->2.6.22(what a speed on 256MB RAM)
and on menuconfig i watched Selinux and PAE(physical address extension)
can any one tell me what is both the thing
PAE and SE linux(Please Answer me in a way so that 17 year old boy can understand like me)

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PAE/SELinux

On August 9th, 2009 Mitch Frazier says:

PAE, if supported by the CPU, allows x86 processors (and x86-64 processors running in 32-bit mode) to use more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory.

SELinux stands for Security Enhanced Linux, the name alone should tell you what its purpose is.

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