Linux Kernel Compilation
From time to time you may need to install the Linux (the kernel) manually, this may be to get some new feature you want, or just to see what it's like.
Compiling it
Okay firstly you'll have to download the kernel sources from Kernel.org and download the compressed archive, which will be named linux-2.6.''some_number''.tar.bz2 - higher the number, newer the kernel
Download the archive, use wget or your browser's download manager for this.
The 'classic' place to put kernel sources is in /usr/src -
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