I started with Reportlab (the open source parts), found it to low level so I considered using the commercial edition because it has a templating language. As I was not very fond of investing time in learning yet another templating language, I reconsidered, and gave HTML with CSS a try for printing. I used wkhtmlpdf for a while but switched to WeasyPrint in the end: it was created for using HTML with CSS for printing, seemed to be more actively developed when compared to wkhtmlpdf.

Some distro's provide kernel packages for various CPU's. No need to recompile it.

kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on 386.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-6 86-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7.
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K7 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on generic x86_64 systems.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD64 systems.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on AMD K8 SMP.
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-xeon - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel amd64 systems.