[nylug-talk] Does anyone have a case why we should still compile custom kernels

[Remy De la Cruz]

Before I used to do it very often @ home pcs but @ work I havent have to do
it no even once.

I'd say that depends on your distribution and hardware vendor.  In my case,
where all the hardware is from HP I dont see why would you need to recompile
the kernel using RedHat EL or SuSE ES when they already have all the drivers
needed in the default installation to support HP hardware inside out.

Now on the application side you can set most of the settings on the fly and
you still have the loadable modules or you may want to have a custom lite
running kernel which nowadays with all the memory you can have installed on
a system would not make sense.

IMO, that's a fading skill that a SA must have regardless.

On 5/30/07, Rajesh Menon <menon.rajesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/30/07, Ezra Taylor <ezra.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All:
> >                 Is it still necessary to custom compile linux kernels?
> > --
> > Ezra Taylor
>
> Why, what happened today?
>
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Remy De la Cruz
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