The recent CPU flaw caused quite a mess. Most recent linux kernels have the problems patched, but what if I am willing to trade security for performance? I’ll need to compile my own kernel and here is how to do that on Ubuntu 17.
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apt install git build-essential kernel-package fakeroot libncurses5-dev libssl-dev ccache wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.15.tar.xz tar Jxvf linux-4.15.tar.xz cd linux-4.15 |
First, we need to make oldconfig. Basically copy the kernel compile config from Ubuntu and decide whether new features should be enabled
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cp /boot/config-4.13.0-32-generic .config make oldconfig |
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