[ale] Kernel Compilation?

[James P. Kinney III]

Using only distro kernels can make life easier. It lets the distro make
do all the fun stuff. If you "roll your own" keep the .config file from
one kernel to the next. By running make oldconfig  with the old .config
you stick all the working stuff. 

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 23:19, Ryan Neily wrote:
> 
> I have been readnig numerous articles on recompiling thre kernel on linux 
> systems as of late.  Most of them go to say that it's just not worth doing 
> a recompile for the miniscule memory savings of adding modules into the 
> kernel, and also the speed increase from i486 instructions to i686 is 
> minimal. 
> 
> What do most of you do on this list?  I used to be the big "kernel junkie" 
> and running a Monolithic (no-modules) kernel, compiled to my particular 
> processor type.  Recently, I have given up this game, and am sticking 
> with out of the box kernel configs to save the headaches.  It seems every 
> time I would recompile, something would be left out and not work till I 
> got around to doing another recomplile.  In this day and age of "my uptime 
> is better than your uptime" is it really wrth it?
> 
> Are there others that are finding they are doing less and less recompiles?
> 
> Ryan Neily
> RHCE
> ryan at neily.net
> 
> 
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