Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

[L. H. LOO]

At 30-12-2000 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be 
>optimising our kernels?
>what is a kernel?
>David and Alicia

 From OReilly Running Linux, page 10 : "The kernel  is the guts of the 
operating system itself; it's the code that controls the interface between 
user programs and hardware devices, the scheduling of processes to achieve 
multitasking, and many other aspects of the system.  ............"
HTH