10.2 Has Only Smp Kernel?

I have heard that SUSE uses quite a few patches on the kernel, but if you want to recompile SUSE's kernel, you have the kernel sources as well as kernel-of-the-day. I tried to recompile my own, but I really mucked things up.

There's also Jengelh's kernel for SUSE. I know there's a thread on the subject around here somewhere.

You may also want to check out Underground Desktop, which is based on Arch.

I have heard that SUSE uses quite a few patches on the kernel, but if you want to recompile SUSE's kernel, you have the kernel sources as well as kernel-of-the-day. I tried to recompile my own, but I really mucked things up.

There's also Jengelh's kernel for SUSE. I know there's a thread on the subject around here somewhere.

You may also want to check out Underground Desktop, which is based on Arch.
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Ooo cool.. Added that to my bookmark as well.

I've come across another really fast distro called DreamLinux but it's a little too lightweight for my tastes. I prefer a fast yet full-featured distro. For now, SuSE has just the right balance for me (ie. comes with lots of tools and software out-of-the-box yet has great performance apart from startup time). I can't wait to try out the new GNOME interface in 10.2 and I just hope the smp kernel wouldn't screw up the speed on my single-core.

I've had a rather bad experience on the forum of another distro which I shall not mention, as my posts usually go unnoticed for weeks or even months. I'm so glad that the OpenSuSE forum actually has people who are willing to comment and help. Thank you so much!

Ooo cool.. Added that to my bookmark as well.

I've come across another really fast distro called DreamLinux but it's a little too lightweight for my tastes. I prefer a fast yet full-featured distro. For now, SuSE has just the right balance for me (ie. comes with lots of tools and software out-of-the-box yet has great performance apart from startup time). I can't wait to try out the new GNOME interface in 10.2 and I just hope the smp kernel wouldn't screw up the speed on my single-core.

I've had a rather bad experience on the forum of another distro which I shall not mention, as my posts usually go unnoticed for weeks or even months. I'm so glad that the OpenSuSE forum actually has people who are willing to comment and help. Thank you so much!
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When compiling your own kernel start with "make cloneconfig" and it will setup the config based on kernel you are currently running on...you can then make any changes you want. A make install will create a menu directory in grub of your old kernel so you can boot under it if you have any issues.

There's also Jengelh's kernel for SUSE. I know there's a thread on the subject around here somewhere.[/b]

nothing really interesting there.

Installing pre-compiled kernel does not really make much sense. These kernels as i mentioned before must fit as many as possible hardware setups, so get sources rpm. However pre-patched suse kernels may be disadvantageous if you want to add your own patches (e.g preemptible RCU, readahead, staircase process scheduler, low latency desktop with sysctl tunables like minimum round robin timeslice, interactive CPU scheduling, hard mapped limit , and so on).

Simple re-compiling default kernel and changing available settings will not shorten boot time, it can improve GUI responsiveness (particularly under heavy load), if you know what to turn on and what to switch off.

Thanks for the tips, guys. I'm really starting to reconsider compiling my own kernel again.