Linked by Ben Hughes on Tue 5th Oct 2004 19:16 UTC
GNU/Linux, and all other operating systems, are based around a kernel which controls hardware access and maximizes CPU and RAM efficiency by controlling when and how much programs get to use. The difference between Linux and most other operating systems (closed source ones at least BSD and other open source OS's you can do this with) is that you can compile the kernel to meet your needs.
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"make && make modules_install"
I make sure my boot partition is mounted, then run:
make
make modules_install
make install
With 2.6 kernels, make install places everything needed into /boot. There is no need to edit grub.conf, since the vmlinuz symlink is automatically updated with "make install."