Lord Grover
May 18th, 2010, 09:21 AM
Back in the olden days, when I was a boy, we used to download slakware source into 6 or 10 floppies to compile our own kernels. Later on when a pre-compiled kernel was available we used to use something like make-config to customise the kernel to exclude unused h/w and add vga cards, sound, etc.
As today's distros come pre-compiled and ready to run is there any mileage in customising the kernel? I'm guessing processors are so fast and memory so abundant it's not worth the hassle any more?
As today's distros come pre-compiled and ready to run is there any mileage in customising the kernel? I'm guessing processors are so fast and memory so abundant it's not worth the hassle any more?