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Why can you not (sanely) run a custom kernel?

Posted on May 16, 2015
oats

By oats

I know it’s sorta technically possible through kexec, but native support for custom kernels would be quite nice.



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Hi! You can run custom kernels on Debian 8, FreeBSD, or Ubuntu 15.04 droplets.

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