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Wow. I cant believe how simple the building of a custom kernel has become. I fiddled with this 15 years ago and it all seemed very unapproachable at the time.

• fragmede 5y ago
  Technology has come so far! What used to take overnight on a very expensive new machine can be done in a matter of minutes on a late model laptop. git bisect run, connected to a script that boots a VM to test the kernel is the holy Grail of... something, not sure what, but looking back at how things used to be, that's a feat of software (and hardware, eg CPU vmx extensions) engineering and progress that blows my mind.
• trulyme 5y ago
  Interesting, my thought is opposite, that not much has changed - download, unzip, modify (optional), make menuconfig, make, make install, fix grub config, profit. :) EDIT: it is true however that someone has shown me the steps, I would have wasted a lot of time without their guidance.
  • lbj 5y ago
    Confirms my theory that I was not very bright in my younger years :) But I also had almost zero help when I first took on Linux, except manpages.
    • trulyme 5y ago
      That matters a lot - having someone to show you the ropes makes the learning process much smoother.
      • lbj 5y ago
        Indeed. It was a different world back then. I remember "searching the BBS" not for topics, but for specific files I had heard would help me out :)
• phendrenad2 5y ago
  Honestly, a lot of these steps feel like BASH-fu fanciness and Debian-specific package management headaches. :)