On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:07:20AM +0530, Srikanth N S wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>                           I am a newbie Linux user. I have installed RH
> 6.1 on a 3 GB partition of an 8.4 GB HDD the rest of which is occupied
> by Win 98. I have a Celeron266 Mhz,64 MB SDRAM system.
> 
> I read in a PCQuest article that I have to recompile the Kernel to fine
> tune Linux. I have installed Star Office 5.1 . I was told that only if I
> recompile the kernel after new software installation,  I wil be able to
> take advantage of Linux kernel.

Just to set the expectation right, depending on your application, you could
see 0% to 10% improvement. Not 50% or 100%.

> 
> How to recompile the kernel ? Will somebody give me what are the
> commands to be issued (typed) in the terminal?

/usr/src/linux/README after you've installed the kernel source.

        -Arun

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