Desktop-kernel: what's in a name?

A few upgrades ago, I had also a desktop-kernel installed. I tried starting with the standard and the desktop kernel, but could not see a difference. Why this desktop-kernel and what’s the difference with the standard kernel?

HP laptop with Intel(R) Core™2 CPU T5600 - OpenSUSE 11.3 -KDE4.4.4

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:06:02 +0530, HuibC
<HuibC@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> A few upgrades ago, I had also a desktop-kernel installed. I tried
> starting with the standard and the desktop kernel, but could not see a
> difference. Why this desktop-kernel and what’s the difference with the
> standard kernel?
>

from a quick google search:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2010-07/msg00774.html


phani.

Like kernel-pae, kernel-desktop supports 3GB+ RAM on 32 bit installs
kernel-default does not