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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The two nearly identical mount commands were supposed to be to mount the / partition and then to mount all other neccesary partitions but it could have been late or it could have been one of those html nonos i did. Frankly it was late and I was typing it up in Openoffice and did not feel like converting it by hand and I also wanted to see whether openoffice could do it. I was getting tired so I just looked over it to make sure it generally looked *ok*, this is also my first article and i thought I understood the guidelines. Honestly the < > things i should have caught (and if i was doing as I normally do and not use a wysiwag of any kind it would not have happened) I am sorry if that inconvenienced you. About grammar, that is not what I am most skilled at. About there being a lot of guides to configuring a kernel, Back about 6 months when I was n00b (i was not on gentoo then) I finally worked up the guts to try and do a kernel compile, I searched all over for good guides, but none of them met my needs. I finally found a guide that met my needs when I had already moved onto gentoo, The Gentoo Handbook (which most people would not think of unless they were trying gentoo).
Thank you for your feedback and advice (although it seems like I am making excuses I will rectify all problems in future articles)
Ben Hughes