Those engineers have not been slacking on
the job; they still work endlessly to make sure your system is as stable and as high
performing as it could possibly be. When security holes are discovered in the kernel, a
patched kernel will be in the YOU servers almost instantly.
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To learn more about SUSE??™s process in building kernels, check out
/usr/src/linux/_README.SUSE. This file is included in the kernelsources package.
When should you violate the Don??™t Recompile a SUSE Kernel rule? You are permitted to
come up with your own exceptions, but these three are probably the best reasons:
. To accommodate a really new, or obscure, piece of hardware.
. To update your entire system before a precompiled kernel is available. That is, you
need a newly released kernel with a device driver that will finally solve a longstanding
printer problem.
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. If you are running SUSE on an older computer and you need to optimize the kernel
to run on the older hardware.
As noted earlier, you can pick up RPM packages for new kernels by way of the SUSE
kernel-of-the-day repositories.
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