On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:39 +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:43:21PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > C. At least in my experience the performance increase in rolling your > > > own kernel was negligible. YMV, of course. > > > > I tend to agree. I used to experiment with rolling my own and never really > > experienced any noticeable benefit. Of course, if there is some option you > > really need, that is disabled in the FC version then yes, but I bet these are > > rather esoteric cases. > > > It surely depends a bit on how much capacity (in various ways) the > system has to spare. If there's ample spare memory, processor power, > etc. then a small decrease in kernel footprint is going to make little > difference. > > I have only built custom kernels recently when I needed patches, > drivers, etc. that weren't yet in the standard kernels. > ... True, but you shouldn't be installing Fedora on older and/or embedded machine to begin with. Running the first post-install yum update on my PII/366/256MB laptop (that currently runs CentOS5) literally took days. IMHO, you should really use Fedora on semi-recent desktop, laptop and servers. - Gilboa
