[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.

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Updated page to new formatting conventions and to exactly reflect original document. — Matthew Fillpot 2012/09/16 20:40

Corrected a minor error submitted by Ellendhel via the SlackDocs Mailing List. Changed “my” to “may” in the following snip: –> Sometimes a kernel patch may be available ←- V. T. Eric Layton 2014/10/20 00:18

Corrected two minor errors submitted by Ellendhel via SlackDocs Mailing List. –> Here you can see that I the new kernel I am compiling has added support for a new filesystem: ext4. –> Typically it is save safe to choose the default option… ~V. T. Eric Layton 2014/11/04 2130 EST