[$] Accelerating the kernel's build process
We're bad at marketing We can admit it, marketing is not our strong suit. Our strength is writing the kind of articles that developers, administrators, and free-software supporters depend on to know what is going on in the Linux world. By Jonathan CorbetSeptember 11, 2026 Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds.
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| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:32 +0000 |
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We're bad at marketing We can admit it, marketing is not our strong suit. Our strength is writing the kind of articles that developers, administrators, and free-software supporters depend on to know what is going on in the Linux world. Please subscribe today to help us keep doing that, and so we don’t have to get good at marketing. By Jonathan CorbetSeptember 11, 2026 Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds. Since the kernel is not a small program, those builds can take a fair amount of time, even on a fast machine. The kernel also has a complex build system; it is probably fair to say that few developers truly understand it, and fewer still are willing to try to improve it.
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