I think "removing ancient kernel cruft" would be a cool talk. Now I *was* going to say, Thanks Rob we needed a volunteer for that; but I suppose that posting this response would make that backfire = )
I'm hoping to do a linux-multimedia presentation soon. Who was I going to share that with, anyone remember? Thanks, Ben On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:41:25 -0800 Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Rob Hudson wrote: | | > I don't know what would be the best way to go about this since the | > options list for kernels are quite long... but I often go through the | > kernel configuration and wonder if I shouldn't be using certain | > features. I feel like I know just enough to build my own kernel for my | > system and get the major parts working, but I also feel like there are | > some features I'm not quite sure about (eg: microcode support, local | > APIC support, CMD640 bugfix support, etc). | | Picking the best kernel options is a research project. | | You can either turn a bunch of stuff on and see what happens, or you | can spend a long time enabling, building and testing each option of | interest. I usually do the latter, but I always have a long backlog | of kernel settings I want to try. (I don't like rebooting.) | | I agree that it would be a good presentation topic, but I think it's | too broad. Sort of like you wouldn't want a talk on "files in | /etc". (-: Maybe a talk on APM/ACPI would be good, or on hotplugging. | | -- | Bob Miller K<bob> | kbobsoft software consulting | http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug