Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward. Read on for everything you need to know...

As we'll show you in this tutorial, compiling a kernel isn't very different from compiling most other packages: first you run the configuration script, followed by make to compile the software, then you install it. The main difference is that the configure stage is usually interactive. Another difference is that each time you compile a new kernel, it is installed alongside the previous one, so if it doesn't work you can still boot from another, working, kernel.

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