I was looking through the package descriptions for Slackware 9 and found the Advanced Power Monitoring daemon (APMD); it said it had to be compiled with the kernel. When I installed Slackware on ...

This new in-kernel server is capable of much faster SMB3 file serving and supports more features (such as RDMA support for SMB Direct) that are implemented directly within the kernel. Hardware support ...

Meanwhile, software developer Jeff Gering says that the MacBook Air and Mac mini with the M1 chip can compile the Linux kernel faster than the MacBook Pro with the Intel Core i9 processor.

I am fairly adept at compiling my own kernel on a native linux platform, but am not certain on any of the inticacies that may surround compiling a kernel for linux running in VMWare.