On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:50:05 +0000, A. S. Budden wrote:

Unlike the previous replies, I would strongly discourage that you invest
time in kernel compilation now. Besides the "geek factor", there is no
value to you in this procedure at this stage, because you will not
understand what the various options mean. It will take you many tries to
get things right and none of your applications will run any faster.
Upgrading to the unstable 2.6pre series would also require that you update
modutils and possibly other packages, and will likely break pcmcia support
and certain video drivers.

If your system is slow, you should investigate why. Perhaps this is as
simple as a memory shortage. Or a wrong video card driver. Or disk
controller in PIO mode. Or incorrect network setup. You should be are able
to detect the exact cause of the problem before attempting to compile
kernels (which is mostly a useless exercise anyway).

--
Vladimir