W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
...
Almost every Linux guru I know has his/her own custom system. All my
clients who have anything to do with Linux always customize their own Linux
kernel. Is this an unspoken sina quo non or what? :-)
Compiling and installing a new kernel is not the main problem. The
difficult part
is, essentially every major distro has its customized kernel. And if
their patches are not incorporated by Marcelo, the 18-year Brazilian
> wonder kid who is now in charge of the stable kernel, then there may
be some unknown consequences.
The distributions try to not make their userspace dependent upon these
patches, or at least make it so that the userspace components will
gracefully handle the non-presence of them. They know that Linux
systems are customizable, and to make it impossible or overly difficult
to drop in a custom kernel would alienate a large portion of their userbase.
--MonMotha
