thax for the input.. infact one of my main goals for the coming year 2005 (the second year of unix for me) is to acquire someknow how into accessing the kernel and the operating system.. so far I have managed to get into shell scripting, c programming and and some device file usage and that has worked out pretty well.. on top of the first three aplications that I learned to use, sed, grep and awk.. . if there is information on this site about recompiling the kernel and other such subjects I will probably find it..
thanx for the tip moxxx68