Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 22:04 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> BTW, gcc is not installed on by default AFAIR. > > Wow, how do you update the kernel each week? :) > > More seriously, I know under FreeBSD, one of the first things that gets > done after installing is to customize the kernel to get rid of all the > 'cruft' part of the generic kernel, I take it that this isn't something > that ppl do with Linux? On systems that have a packaging system, you are supposed to download and install vendor kernels. There is "no need" to build the kernel. However, if you want to build, then you need to install development environment. On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat does not provide support if I do so :) Regards, -- The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.503.667.4564 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/
