Are there any obvious disadvantages to using this below method in Mageia?
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Download a Kernel:
2. /usr/src -tar vxf linux
cd linux
make clean && make mrproper
(cp ../../.config /usr/src/linux/.config)
make menuconfig
save
make -j3 <--- 3 indicates cores you use to compile. If you have 8, use 6 or 7
make modules && make modules_install
make install
3
configure Grub, use grub 1 if necessary.
I mean, for me this is the purist way of doing things, this method works in Mageia, testen and proven time after time in all previous versions. But in a system like Fedora, thiis build model is impossible, it ruins the system. In Mageia I have never encountered any problems with running a custom self compiled Kernel, even a minimal one, with only necessary configurations. Aside from obvious self created issues that were fixed in subsequent configuration versions.
I found this thread in Mageia's website:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_compi ... tom_kernel
Is that the preferred method, or is it somewhat outdated and overcomplicated, or does it have certain advantages in Mageia over a more traditional method?
In many other distroes, it tends to either be problematic, become problematic, or make complications, due to the lack of the flexibility and configurability of the system, alike to more restricted and closed systems of various charachter.
How about using Kernel tools, or doing things a different way and implementing Kernels from packages, using your own configuration files? I don't know the other ways to handle a Kernel in Mageia, except for just automatic with packages, or using my own custom Kernel. I don't know the third way. Perhaps there is a Kernel building tool of some sort? Graphical interface? I prefer menuconfig due to the nature of the action being done when changing the kernel settings and building a new kernel. Less graphics is better in this case IMO.
