[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“We recently highlighted some of the new features of the Linux
2.6 kernel. Now, we’ll look at the process of compiling and
installing a new kernel safely, without overwriting the existing
kernel.“You can install as many kernels as you like on a Linux system,
and select the one you want to run at boot time. This makes it easy
to test different kernels, and different kernel configurations,
with particular sets of hardware or applications. The wise network
admin always tests new kernels before running them on production
machines…”