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penguinstarship

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 52

Building/Compiling my own kernel

Hello out there. I'm looking to build/compile my own kernel for the first time. Does anyone know of some real good guides, or would be up for posting some useful information I should know before I get started? I hope to get better overall performance out of my system with my own kernel. Thank you!

mr.MikyMaus

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 285

Re: Building/Compiling my own kernel

Building own kernel is not as difficult as people think. But it's also more useless than people think. You don't have to build your own kernel unless you have a very good reason for it (like hardware or security issue).

As for performance reasons I don't think a custom-built kernel will make a significant difference, if any. The only effect are complications like a must-to compile extra modules like most wifi drivers, kqemu, nvidia drivers, etc..

On the other hand you'll learn a few things about hardware detection and configuration and gain quite useful experience.

So, if you want to play around a little, go on and try to tune your kernel ;-)

A nice howto is at Gentoo Wiki.

-miky

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hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

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Re: Building/Compiling my own kernel

Just use the current kernel26 PKGBUILD and add your changes/patches to it and makepkg.