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[Posted May 11, 2011 by corbet]

Rebuilding the kernel enables end users to make modifications to their devices that are normally not intended by the device manufacturer, such as theming the device by changing system icons and removing/modifying system components. Please note that Sony Ericsson is not recommending this.

-- But they do tell you how

I can easily handle such people, being a bit bigger than that, and lots of experience being a bouncer at a punk-rock bar for a number of years.

-- The source of Greg Kroah-Hartman's kernel skills

For the life of me I can't understand why you distro guys need to keep patching the kernel when you could just add a line to your initscripts. I'm suspecting that lameness is involved.

-- Andrew Morton

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Posted May 12, 2011 16:38 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033) [Link] (1 responses)

And you think that you'll still be able to do this in a couple of years time? Talk to someone who used to play games AND run Linux on their Playstation, before you part company with your cash.

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Posted May 16, 2011 19:56 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

I suspect this is more related to Ericsson than to Sony. After all, Ericsson was the mobile phone builder of the two (Sony had miniscule market share) and Ericsson is a very engineer driven company. I would expect there is at least some internal pressure for these things. But I don't know for sure of course and I would only be happy if someone from SE could clarify their internal workings.