I decided to compile my own kernel the day before yesterday, to try and speed things up a bit. Most people say that the speed gain is negligable, and that the RAM usage is the only thing that will be noticeably different. So, off I went to compile a kernel! I followed this excellent guide, [...]
Filed in Linux, under ACPI, Boot, Compile, Kernel, Linux, Optimize on May 31, 2008
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Last night, I decided to recompile community, AUR, and unstable. It all seemed to go very well until I rebuilt my initramfs image to test my new splashy theme (splashy was one of the recompiled packages). I rebooted my computer and… Nothing. GRUB appeared, tried to load the kernel, and the screen went black. I [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Compile, Kernel, LiveCD on May 24, 2008
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In my post yesterday I mentioned a script that would recompile all installed packages on an Arch system, with customized CFLAGS and so on. I was going to wait until the summer to do this, but I really couldn’t resist trying it now.
Recompiling all AUR packages worked perfectly well - how could it not? AUR [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Compile, Linux, Optimize on May 23, 2008
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Everyone who has used Arch knows that packages built from scratch use custom CFLAGS specified in /etc/makepkg.conf (or they do if they installed them with pacman/makepkg). This gives a great level of optimization control to you if you desire it, the default CFLAGS are generic i686 optimized, but the Arch wiki has a very good [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Compile, Gentoo, Linux, Optimize, Pacman on May 22, 2008
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