What is it?
This project was born because of the need for speed.
These are kernel packages optimized for Desktop performance and improved multimedia responsiveness, as well as interactivity. Suitable for high performance gaming and content creation (at least they're intended to be like that).
For some time now it has been known that stock distribution kernels are not the fastest performers, as they are built for stability and to suit a great number of system configurations, especially on the x86 architecture.
The aim of this project is to bring better performng kernels and at the same time trying to keep the stability from the stock kernels. In order to do that heavy patching of the vanilla kernel source, i.e the source you can grab off kernel.org, has been done. The patches applied to these kernels are basically revolving around the Con Kolivas patchset and also incorporate patches from other projects like the nitro patchset (found on the gentoo forums).
The kernels are mainly targeted to the Fedora Core distribution, and they started at supporting the Fedora Core 4 distribution (and soon, very soon, Core 5 too). Source patches and source RPM packages are provided as well, along the binary pacakges.
The supported platforms and configurations are rather limited too, as these packages are only available for i386 and x86_64 architectures, but devided into i686 and athlon packages for the i386 architecture; and x86_64 and amd64 for the x86_64 architecture. SMP packages are available for each of these. This spans 18 files as each RPM has its corresponding -devel package.
-devel packages are necessary to build additional drivers (like network, graphics or sound) and are provided for convenience. Source packages, i.e a generic patch or the .src.rpm package are available as well. Detailed instructions on how to use any of the source packages is beyond the scope of this site, but brief information on how to do that will be posted here for convenience.
The source pacakges are inteded to be used by anyone not using the Fedora distribution, but wanting to experimient with something new and a convinently patched kernel. The main advatantage to using the source packages is that you end up with kernel highly optimized for your hardware. Unlike binary pacakges, the source pacakges can be used in any of the other supported Linux platforms, like IA64, PPC/64, SPARC, PA-RISC, etc.
The packages have been divided into two "branches", the stable branch is designated with the -CFKP identifier and testing pacakges are designated as -Blackhawk. The latest stable Blackhawk ends up as the final stable -CFKP, this to avoid a situation that already presented of having Beta -CFKP packages.
These are kernel packages optimized for Desktop performance and improved multimedia responsiveness, as well as interactivity. Suitable for high performance gaming and content creation (at least they're intended to be like that).
For some time now it has been known that stock distribution kernels are not the fastest performers, as they are built for stability and to suit a great number of system configurations, especially on the x86 architecture.
The aim of this project is to bring better performng kernels and at the same time trying to keep the stability from the stock kernels. In order to do that heavy patching of the vanilla kernel source, i.e the source you can grab off kernel.org, has been done. The patches applied to these kernels are basically revolving around the Con Kolivas patchset and also incorporate patches from other projects like the nitro patchset (found on the gentoo forums).
The kernels are mainly targeted to the Fedora Core distribution, and they started at supporting the Fedora Core 4 distribution (and soon, very soon, Core 5 too). Source patches and source RPM packages are provided as well, along the binary pacakges.
The supported platforms and configurations are rather limited too, as these packages are only available for i386 and x86_64 architectures, but devided into i686 and athlon packages for the i386 architecture; and x86_64 and amd64 for the x86_64 architecture. SMP packages are available for each of these. This spans 18 files as each RPM has its corresponding -devel package.
-devel packages are necessary to build additional drivers (like network, graphics or sound) and are provided for convenience. Source packages, i.e a generic patch or the .src.rpm package are available as well. Detailed instructions on how to use any of the source packages is beyond the scope of this site, but brief information on how to do that will be posted here for convenience.
The source pacakges are inteded to be used by anyone not using the Fedora distribution, but wanting to experimient with something new and a convinently patched kernel. The main advatantage to using the source packages is that you end up with kernel highly optimized for your hardware. Unlike binary pacakges, the source pacakges can be used in any of the other supported Linux platforms, like IA64, PPC/64, SPARC, PA-RISC, etc.
The packages have been divided into two "branches", the stable branch is designated with the -CFKP identifier and testing pacakges are designated as -Blackhawk. The latest stable Blackhawk ends up as the final stable -CFKP, this to avoid a situation that already presented of having Beta -CFKP packages.
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If using a framebuffered console, these are the logos that will be displayed while booting, depending on the type of kernel, -CFKP (left) or -Blackhawk (right). |  |
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