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10+ advices BEFORE you rebuild Linux kernel

linuxscrew.com — From site: Many Linux newbies think that kernel recompilation is inherent and almost necessary thing to do. By the following advices I would try to show these fellows in which situations this really makes sense and what to do if one persists :)

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  • baalzebub, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1i agree with most of it except for # 10 "Rebuilding procedure usually takes hours depending on hardware you use. BE PATIENT!"

    my kernels build in about 10 minutes, of course i have saved my .config from the previous build and just load it with menuconfig but i still look through it for any changes, and if i don't build support & features for hardware i don't have, and filesystem support (ext3) is built in to the kernel itself making an initrd unnecessary most of the rest is built as modules...

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