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What to do with the Linux kernel

KERNEL HACKS

Author(s): ZACK BROWN

If you get right down to it, the Linux kernel is the real Linux. This month we focus on tools for tuning and tailoring the kernel.

The kernel is the brain at the center of your Linux system. This month we examine some techniques for managing and customizing the Linux kernel. We start with an indepth article by Knoppix creator (and Linux Magazine columnist) Klaus Knopper on building, upgrading, and customizing the kernel. Linux sound expert Dave Phillips weighs in with a look at how to tune the kernel for multimedia apps, and the final article in the set examines some popular Linux optimization tools. If you are ready to step up your kernel configuration game, read on for some practical Linux kernel hacks. But first, we asked Kernel News author Zack Brown to provide a little background on how that code in the kernel got to your hard drive.


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