The kernel is the most important component of an operating system: among the other things, it provides support for different types of hardware and manages resource allocations. Linux is a monolithic kernel: although its functionalities can be included statically or built and loaded as separate modules, it always runs as a “single piece” in the same address space. In this tutorial we will see how to download, compile and install a vanilla Linux kernel.
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