I remember the first time I compiled a Linux kernel. I was nervous. It was something I’d never done before, and it seemed like an incredibly difficult task. After all, isn’t the kernel the stuff of ...

As a system administrator, what better way to know the platform you work with than to put it together into a working, cohesive whole? When you build Linux from scratch, you come to fully and ...

There are notable patches by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes that have begun landing in Linux 7.4 for speeding up the Linux kernel build process. This work can provide some significant reductions in the ...

In a world teeming with Linux distributions — from Ubuntu to Arch, Debian to Fedora — the idea of building your own may seem daunting, if not redundant. Yet, for many technologists, enthusiasts, and ...

Hi all, after all the talk about removing buffer_heads, here is a series that shows how to build a kernel without buffer_heads. And how unrealistic it is to remove the entirely. Most of the series ...