[aclug-L] Re: An idea -- any volunteers/helpers?

[Anne McCadden <amccadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about new users like me who installed almost everything and don't
know some of the progams are.  Would I benefit from recompiling the
kernal or just reinstalling Red Hat 7.2 and not selecting so many
programs.  I know that in windows, you just reinstall and remove some of
the items that use to be selected.  ~Anne

Clint Brubakken wrote:
> 
> The truth is for most newer distributions you don't  need to recompile
> the kernel. Things like kudzu in red hat, automatically install the
> modules for the hardware you have, and with the correct parameters.
> 
> Only power users really need to compile the kernel any more.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 09:05, jlweaver wrote:
> > After reading Anne's reply on the kernal recompile, I would like to see the
> > presentation.  I particularly am interested in why we would want to 
> > recompile
> > the kernal.  I think all newbies would be interested in why, when & how to
> > recompile.
> > - Larry Weaver
> >
> > Anne McCadden wrote:
> >
> > > We had a presentation of how to recompile the kernal and it seemed to be
> > > very successful and educational.  James seems to know more about the
> > > linux kernal than anyone else in the group.  I just can't remember his
> > > last name.  ~Anne
> > >
> > > Thomas Wallis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Michael Holmes wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > So many ideas are killed as not possible.  How about explaining how it
> > > > > would be possible.  I sat in one meeting as someone recompiled their
> > > > > kernel.  So it is learnable.
> > > >
> > > >         I think we could do a presentation on kernel recompilation.
> > > > It is useful knowledge to have.
> > > >
> > > >                                 T W
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Mike
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:20 PM, Jonathan Hall
> > > > > [SMTP:jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > > > >
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