----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:25 PM Subject: Re: compiling linux kernel Tyler Littlefield, le Thu 21 Aug 2008 12:19:07 -0600, a ?crit : > I don't want to use my kernel that came with deb because it's huge, and I > think I might get some better performance if there wasn't so much there, > in terms of everything being modules, etc. There is _no_ performance loss in everything being a module. Really, there is little point in using one's own kernel nowadays (except applying patches). And bragging rights. Well, I suppose that would only work on the uninformed. If you tell someone in the know that you're using a custom kernel they might think you're a dope. When I was fairly new to linux, I ran into somebody at a party and the conversation turned to how we spent our spare time. I said I was trying to get up to speed on linux. This other guy said he was into linux too so I asked which distro. He said, "I make my own." At the time I was very impressed. But now I say, "What a waste of time."
