Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...

Follow along with this step-by-step guide to creating your own distribution. In an article in the June 2018 issue of LJ, I introduced a basic recipe for building your own minimal Linux-based ...

I've been building my own kernels on Ubuntu (technically, Kubuntu 14.04) for years, using `make-kpkg` from the kernel-package package. All I had to do after ...

Raspberry Pi has introduced and released the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. I happen to have four Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 devices on my bench along with a couple of Raspberry Pi Compute ...

I will show that it's possible to install, configure, and use this Linux distribution with absolutely no command-line access. This report was released at the invitation-only Linux Kernel Summit in ...

If there’s been one constant through Linux’s 25 years in the wild, it’s change. The kernel itself has been through dozens of revisions; Linux distributions for most every use case have emerged; and ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...