linux kernel version

Download of the day: Linux kernel 2.6.24

by Vivek Gite on January 25, 2008 · 6 comments

The Linux kernel version 2.6.24 has been released and available for download. From the announcement: The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) LCA in Melbourne, so let’s hope it’s a good one. Nothing earth-shattering happened since [...]

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If you are developing an application for Linux desktop and would like to automatically find out more information about system, use the following commands in shell scripts to gather information about system. Recently I was involved in project where I need to collect information about running GUI, browser and other information such as disk space, [...]

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How to: Compile Linux kernel 2.6

by nixcraft on September 29, 2005 · 131 comments

Compiling custom kernel has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, new Linux user / admin find it difficult to compile Linux kernel. Compiling kernel needs to understand few things and then just type couple of commands. This step by step howto covers compiling Linux kernel version 2.6.xx under Debian GNU Linux. However, instructions remains the [...]

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