First, let me clarify something that I didn't explain well enough due to
my excitement. I have not done much optimization at this point but am
just excited that I was able to install a customized kernel that
actually worked! (I've had nothing but failures over the years I've
tinkered with it.)
At this point, the only customization I've done is 1) setting it up to
compile only with code specific to my processor by turning off code for
most every other type and 2) turned off checking for some of the
features that I knew my processor and chip set didn't have. I used the
"make xconfig" command to go through the options since it is a nice
interface. It will be from this point on where I start trying the more
risky settings to attempt speeding it up and shrink it down more.
Of course, now that I'm starting to customize my system in this way,
I've had to turn off having Yum do automatic updates as I will have to
screen them for packages that would actually damage my customized system.
Bradley
P.S. My purposes for wanting to customize my system include
streamlining the kernel, controlling when and how updates are done,
preventing installation of unwanted software (one of the major
weaknesses of the package system of installation is that sometimes it
says another package is required when it is actually optional or may
interfere with another program that is installed which offers the same
or similar features thereby replacing the "required" package.), etc.
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