<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>><font face="courier new, monospace">"</font><span style="font-size:12.7273px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">lighter and faster" that means go with the "GCC screen saver" linux distribution or as its also known by the name gentoo. >:)<br>
<br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Let me clarify and explain the need 'why' I want it 'lighter and faster' . I have a ancient D915 motherboard ( Please don't laugh ) with 2GB Ram and on board integrated video with a </font><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU runni9ng at 3.06GHz. <br>
<br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Recently I noticed top showing me a lot more than the usual load average and I thought let me hyperthread, enabled in BIOS but strangely some applications actually took longer to load and some were slow than before ? Also had strange incoming connections from all over, so being paranoid I installed mac-changer in a shell script so at each boot it changes my MAC then the load average did drop but it is still not the 0.02 a pristine install used to show me. <br>
<br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">While compiling the kernel it took for ever, and if I render something in Blender I can go get groceries from No-Frills drop in at cafe time to say hello to my crack head buddies and have a ciggy then walk home only to see it's still not done. Takes a long time so these are a few reasons I want to comiple and tweak a kernel that matches my hardware and hopefully will have a responsive system again instead of this sluggish beast that is a pain to work on at times :-)<br>
<br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Oh, the desktop ( am running gnome classic ) sudeenly totally freezes and the only way out is to CTRL+F1 and drop into a shell then sudo shutdown -r now which I am getting weary of now... <br>
<br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">I will checkout gentoo thank's ted.<br></font><div><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br><br></font><div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com" target="_blank">aruna.hewapathirane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>>It has been years since I built a kernel -- there rarely seems to be a<br>>need.<br>
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This is my first one. Simply wanted to see if I can build a kernel to match and fit my hardware, the documentation says that can make things lighter and faster ? <br>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>>I recommend that you start with clean source, without your patch, and<br>>try building. It will likely be a learning experience.<br></div><div>Understood and will comply and yes very much a learning process here :-)<br>
</div><div><br>>Only patch after you have perfected building and installing.<br></div><div>Understood again,, <br><br>>I infer from previous posts that you are using Ubuntu. Ubuntu has its<br>>own packaged kernels and hence its own protocol for building a kernel.<br>
>Try<br>>(1) starting from one of their kernel source packages, and<br>>(2) using their official method of building the kernel.<br><br></div><div>I have a soft spot for Ubuntu because I cut my teeth on Karmic But am looking at Cent-OS, Fedora also Backtrack( Kali) and Slackware. Slackware one needs advanced know-how and knowledge to configure which am yet to attain, not for newbies I felt. So am not chained to ubuntu am open to alternatives... just thought knowing the kernel compiling and build process will help later to tweak things so I have a system that is fast. <br>
</div><div><br>>That should minimize the chance of problems.<br></div><div>Many thank's Hugh for all the pointers :-)<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
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