All config symbol values are saved in a special file called .config. Every time you want to change a kernel compile configuration, you execute a make target, such as menuconfig or xconfig. These read ...

Often, however, programmers with the desire and the know-how to add features to the Linux kernel choose not to for a variety of reasons. In this article, I hope to clear up some of the mysteries ...

Thanks for taking some of your time to reply Topsoil.<BR>I had a look at the Kernel Howto but was confused.<BR>Now, I'm sure that the /boot/config-2.4.20-8 file is the one used for the default ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enables the start of a Linux system and the use of Linux applications under Windows. Performance can also be improved with a new kernel.

Linux works well for most jobs, but to get it to work great requires kernel tuning, and that's never easy. ByteDance has a proposal to make this easier.

Cleaning off decades of code mess isn't for the faint of heart, but leading Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar is giving it the old college try in the open-source Linux kernel.

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