>> I still don't entirely "get" why you would ever recompile the OS kernel.
>> I mean, all it does is memory allocation, interrupt scheduling, etc.
>> What's to change?
>
> When I initially compiled the kernel after installing Gentoo, I had no
> DVD drive, and was also short a lot of other hardware. So I turned those
> options off. Later on, when I got certain hardware, I needed to enable
> those options.
>
> Lately I've had to connect to work using a PPTP VPN (evil stuff). I
> hadn't compiled PPTP support in the kernel. So: Recompile. Another time
> I needed to use DAV. Not enabled in kernel - so I compiled.

In Windows you just install a driver, why do you need to recompile the 
kernel?

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