Hi, I am a Slackware user and I am running kernel 2.6. I found a site on the web that shows me how to upgrade the kernel since I do not know how to. Here is the site:
http://http://muaythaimaster74.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-compile-slackware-kernel.html

The post was in 2009, and I was just wondering if this is outdated in some way, or if I am just worrying too much. Don't wanna break my system.

That link shows me a site with ads only, no howto. Is this some kind of spam attempt?

Anyways, if you want to upgrade the kernel on a Slackware system I would recommend to follow AlienBobs guide: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...kernelbuilding

Oops, I apologize. I had http:// in there twice...

Thanks for the link Tobi, I will follow that link. That was not a spam attempt. The link works if you were interested in looking at it.

What is the goal of upgrading the kernel? Is there something specific you hope to gain? (i.e. such-and-such hardware requires kernel version x.xx?)

In all honesty, I thought I should upgrade it so that way I am up to date with hardware drivers, since I felt like 2.6 is a little old. But, now that you mention it, I do have a computer with a UEFI enable BIOS (is that correct wording? I don't know a lot about UEFI, haven't really taught myself yet) and I wanted to dual boot Slackware with my Windows 7 partition. I tried to install it yesterday, but Slackware could not find the installation DVD that was (supposed to be) in /dev/cd0. I am assuming it is because the hardware in my PC is fairly new.

Nice little guide, but I think the one from AlienBob is way more extensive, especially when it comes to things that one can make wrong (read the part about the kernel headers).