Alexander Dalloz wrote:
If you self have no serious reasons for a self compiled kernel it will be wasted time.
Ludo
True, however, it is a great experience. I'd never done it myself either till about 3 days ago, and as long as you follow the myriad of available how-to's it is PISS easy. Really nothing to it.
The times I could see rolling your own as a benefit is:
1> To get the nvidia driver to work on FC2 until nvidia fixes their driver. (Unless they already have???)
2> If you want to do a very specific thing. For example, when I have some time, I'd like to grab an old mini PC I have lying around, stick a serial driven LCD on it, stick some embedded speakers in it, and set it up as an MP3 boom box. It isn't fast and doesn't have a lot of memory, so I'd like to roll my own kernel for that to take out all the bloated crap I don't need.
Regards, Ed.
