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I think you're right; most UNIX installations weren't that much better (Linux especially). I think Solaris may have been one of the best simply because they wer
by Locke1689 16y ago
I think you're right; most UNIX installations weren't that much better (Linux especially). I think Solaris may have been one of the best simply because they were running on SPARC procs and the SPARCs have had optional NX support since '98 or so. That still relied on the admin enabling it though (so basically no one had it enabled).
- yuhong 16y agoAFRIK, NX support was added to 32-bit Linux and Windows XP SP2 around the same time. Unfortunately, it required PAE. XP's bootloader could autodetect and automatically load the PAE kernel, Linux's bootloaders couldn't and so most people still ran with the non-PAE kernel and were thus not taking advantage of NX. This was made worse by the fact that Intel's early Pentium M processors did not have PAE. Finally years later some Linux distributions added auto-detection to their installer.
- Locke1689 16y agoActually, the first NX-related supported was available for Linux as PAGEEXEC on the PaX patch in 2000. You're right that that was nonstandard, though.