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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed
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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

by Bill Ball, David Pitts
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
Sams
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Introduction to the Linux Kernel

You may think kernel tuning is no place for the average user. This is both true and false. Like other features of Linux, the possibilities are endless and deep, but you don't need to understand all the gory details of PCI chipsets to tailor a better Linux for your computer. Armed with nothing more than your computer manuals, you can easily zero in on features you need and leave the very technical tuning for some day down the road. If you know your techie details, Linux will not stand in your way, but if you only know how to run a shell command, you can still build a better Linux.

The first checklist question to ask yourself is, "Do I really need to rebuild the kernel?" The answer is almost always "No." Back in ...

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