Comment Re:Don't break user space! (Score 4, Interesting) 469
Monolithic kernel. You have a somewhat valid argument there. There are modules that I just don''t use, that are routinely compiled into the kernel. Simple solution: Compile it yourself, without the modules. Strip the kernel down to exactly what you need, and compile it native to get rid of all the 32-bit support. You're left with a monolithic kernel, of course, but the monolith is much smaller.