I remember the first time I compiled a Linux kernel. I was nervous. It was something I’d never done before, and it seemed like an incredibly difficult task. After all, isn’t the kernel the stuff of ...

While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google ...

Pierre-Emmanuel Patry and Arthur Cohen gave a talk at RustConf 2026 on the status of the Rust frontend for GCC (gccrs), with a particular eye toward the goal of compiling the Linux kernel. Patry gave ...

It's been over 20 years since I had to compile a Linux kernel, and that's because the boxed copy of Red Hat Linux someone gifted me wasn't going to work with my PC back then without adding stuff that ...

Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee ...

Linux kernel developers tend to take a dim view of the C++ language; it is seen, rightly or wrongly, as a sort of combination of the worst (from a system-programming point of view) features of ...

I would like to gather more information on the specifics of compiling a linux kernel for a linux virtual machine running on a windows host. I am fairly adept at compiling my own kernel on a native ...

OK so after problems with g++ and a recursive binary tree homework problem, it occurs to me that compiling Linux with the Microsoft or Intel compilers would yield interesting results. However, there ...

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...