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Curious to know the coolest things you achieved by configuring your kernel. I know kernel config can be boring, but I'm hoping someone will have an impressive answer.

For me I have a very lightweight kernel that runs wayland on nvidia without any issues to date.

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[–] scrion@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

LPIC-2 certification

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A kernel that fits my hardware and supports things the original kernel doesn't. Then again, i use gentoo.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What did the original kernel not support?

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Having / on ZFS, but that went into an initrd i think... don't remember, but not hardware related.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Better access to tools like ebpf and xdp.

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm running a custom kernel on my Arch laptop. It's a little faster, a little smaller and a little quite more secure. I'm also running custom kernel which enables adiantum encryption on old phone with postmarketOS.

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[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Filesystem level encryption enabled on RHEL. For some damn reason, they turn it off in their kernel.

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