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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Gobbel2000@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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It's not really a big deal, but I am currently writing this using a linux kernel I compiled from source, which certainly feels like an accomplishment. The Arch Wiki has made the process fairly easy to follow. I just took the stock Arch Linux configuration without changes for now.

The most important part of this is of course that I have the option to do that, to take the source code of this incredible project and build my own kernel binary.

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I often did this for years, using -march=corei7 and -mtune=skylake or whatever was the best option for my cpu, patching with brainfuck scheduler, etc.

Now I don't care really 😑

It's always cool to tinker with kernel and config, congrats 🎉

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a student I wasted so much time mucking around with flags and settings in Gentoo. It definitely wasn't pointless since I learned so much, but I didn't need to sit there and watch it compile as much as I did.

It was pleasing to watch though, just like defrag in Windows.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just like defrag in Windows

That felt more a horror for me.

[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Defrag all night and wake up to the sound of the hard drive failing.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he'd been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that's horror.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 year ago

You have backups. Right. Right??