I've been using Linux as my main system for three years. Today, for the first time, I built my own kernel.

It was a difficult process - this was so hard for me to do. I had to try several times just to work out which drivers I needed for my SATA controller. (without these, i could not boot the system.)

Then, I found that the new kernel did not perform as well as the old one. encoding the same file with oggenc took longer.

So I experimented with CPU options, and waited for the annoying compile time.
I had to go and disable a whole bunch of different stuff. It took ages to do that.

eventually I got a kernel which performed slightly better than the original kernel in my oggenc test, so I'm using that now.

The distribution I use is Debian Etch.

here's my new kernel:

Linux ** 2.6.28Z-Sun28Dec #3 SMP Sun Dec 28 14:13:30 GMT 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It was so difficult, and then getting the NVIDIA driver to install was the worst of all. I'm not sure if it was really worth doing, but it was a learning experience.

Do you build your own linux kernels?

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when i was 7 yrs old this russian kid Lived next door to my House. tehn one Day he walked into my living room while i was Watching Cartoons. i became Annoyed and punched him in the Dick which made his parents Angry and i was sent to my Room

years later i wrote this Story on a Websight. would you Like to know its name?

http://xkcd.com/178/

>I had to go and disable a whole bunch of different stuff. It took ages to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKM

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Even if you only build those extra drivers as modules, you still waste a bunch of time compiling modules that you'll never use, and compiling the kernel already takes a long amount of time.