One of the scariest moments in many Linux users’ lives is the moment when they ask someone for help, and they get the reply, “You really have to/need to/should recompile your kernel to make that work.”
In this article, I hope to take some of the fear out of the process, and make it all a bit less intimidating. This article is aimed at the user who is familiar with the use (or at least the basic concepts) of file storage and the command line, but doesn’t necessarily know about compiling things from source.