I talk a little bit, about what I\'m doing today..Decided to spend my sunday learning to compile kernels.. Wasn\'t as hard as I thought, as with most stuff on Ubuntu, there is a tutorial that shows simply everything you need to do as concisely as possible. \n\nSo I\'m compiling a kernel.. But not just any kind of kernel, I\'m compiling the Linux kernel used with 7.10 for 64-bit processors. Turns out my Pentium D processor is a 64 bit processor, so for the heck of it I installed the 64-bit version of 7.10 on my machine last night.. Why 7.10 and not 8.04 ??\n\nI installed 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and it had several bugs on my machine, so I had to deinstall it and reinstall 7.10.. But that was before I learned that my CPU is 64-bit, so I installed it again.. In all I\'ve done three installs since the last video I posted. \n\nNot a big deal, my \"/home\" directory was harmed in no way, so I kept my installs of Orange Box.. I\'ve installed ETQW two times, hopefully it will work atop a 64-bit processor, if not, I may have to go back to the 32-bit version.. But I did try out the 64-bit version of blender from Blender.org website, so I know it\'s in 64-bit mode.. Wow, I haev a 64-bit processor finally!!\n\nOkay that aside, this video is of me trying to add some significance to what compiling a kerenelgets me, and what it is, and why it\'s important.. And some tidbits that I learned while doing it, what tutorial I used, and so forth..One major piece of information: \nMost Linux\'s are monolithic kernels.. Ubuntu uses a modular linux kernel.. I\'ve heard Windows is Monolithic too.. \nAnyhow, I\'m flying by the seat of my pants, and talking through my hat, speculating about what getting a small kernel means, which may be all wrong..But I just trying to recount some of the ideas based upon the little I learned in college.. \n\nSomeone I had a discussion with, the one I\'ve banned because he was annoying to talk to because he would not respect my point of view and cuss at me.. He said to me that Linux is for people that want to compile stuff, and that it\'s not something I want to use, that I should be using windows, and etc.. \n\nI told him \"I don\'t have to compile a damn thing\".. Well I was wrong on this account, but Ubuntu users don\'t have to do any of that complex stuff that I guess other linux users must do, if the kernel is designed to permit one to enable or disable modules without a recompile. But, this is the first compiling I\'ve done of anything.. \n\nHopefully I get a kernel out of this (fingers crossed) and will be able to pair down a kernel that gives me superior performance in ETQW and Wine.. \nOr maybe it crashes, or maybe it doesn\'t optimize anything that much, but in any case I think I\'ll be satisfied knowing I\'ve finally compiled a kernel (or have attempted to). \n\nTo tell you the truth I thought I\'d lose interest half-way into the process, but given the nice menuing interface (versus reading source code files and setting flags in make files) it was a piece of cake.. \n\nThe tutorial even covered constructing a deb install file so the kernel could be distributed (to friends?). The invaluable thing, if you don\'t get anything out of this, is the location of the GRUB file that determines what options are available on the bootloader, the timeout on the bootloader and how to set the default selection (for instance Windows, if you use Ubuntu once in a blue moon): \n/boot/grub/menu.lst is the file.. \n\n\nThe tutorial I used was this one, but warning, this one was a bitch to connect to, for some reason their machine is getting really hit or they are using a really bad content management system (like Coldfusion on a 486):\n\nhttp://beginlinux.com/index.php/desktop_training/ubuntu/ubfile_m/ub_compile\n\nI recommend looking into the google cache for the page, it may be faster.. 2.6, 95, an, compile, Core, How, Kernel, Linux, MS, of, Operating, part, Priority, Ques, System, Task, The, to, Ubuntu, Wacom, Windows, XP