This book is intended to cover everything that is needed to know in order to properly build, customize, and install the Linux kernel. No programming experience is needed to understand and use this book.
this explains why you always need to build the latest kernel when you buy a new dell,
except if you do redhat or novell, and why sometimes the latest knoppix just works
when all the other distos fail you -- knoppix usually has the latest kernel
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