12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
9:15 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 10:55, Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:05, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
Whew! For a moment I thought I was going to lose the horse and my truck
wus gonna break down on a train track! {Hmmm...aint that a song??}
Appreciate the heads up. I sometimes find myself spending a bunch of
hours on nothing worth doing in the pursuit of "the fast machine!"
R~
And now, darn it...you got me thinking I should
try! Are there any
advantages to compiling and leaving out the bunches of crap I don't ever
use that are built in the kernel? Like resources, memory, speed savings
of any sort?
No, absolutely not. 99.99% of Linux users should use their vendor's
kernel. It has undergone a LOT more stability testing than whatever you
would compile off of kernel.org.
You should only use a kernel.org kernel if you need some feature or
driver that your vendor's kernel does not provide, or, obviously, if you
are hacking the kernel. If you go this route you should attempt to
build a binary package for your distribution, then install that. This
way you can post the packages somewhere, and other people who need a
custom kernel for their own purposes can just download your packages vs.
repeating all that work.
Lee