Linux kernel configurator
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The main idea of this project would be to create a helper application to configure the kernel and to enable some parts of it when programs need some options to be enabled.
The problems you can usually find with current kernel configurations are:
- Support for hardware we don't have and never will is enabled.
- Support for features we are not using use is enabled.
- Configuring the kernel by hand is not an easy task, and there are many times in which we don't actually know what we have to enable and disable depending on what we want.
- When new software to be installed needs some specific hardware or some kernel options to be enabled, we might want to know beforehand.
The goal of this draft is to analise different solutions to that problem. Once a solution has been decided (maybe there's no consensus about it, but one seems good enough), the rest of the project should use a different platform.
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