Greetings zenwalkers.
I think I can follow steps given to recompile, I'm wondering what choices the process offers.
Being slackware based, does that mean by default zenwalk has i386 architecture rather than i686 (whatever any of that means)?
Could/should I recompile for my pentium iv thingummy with hyperthreading to get more out of it?
I've searched the forums thus far and did see a potentially helpfull command line for finding out what the kernel options are but haven't seen it for a few days.
p.s. in the install process there is a pause for adding other instructions, would the terms used for recompiling be useful in that process as well?

Well doing make menuconfig for kernel source will give you a GUI with full features (options,modules) which you want to compile and loaded to kernel.

Everything in zenwalk is compiled with "-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"


No. You may want to try but you will spend days recompiling everything and there will be no noticable gains (unless you count placebo as noticable )


No. That's for entering special kernel parameters for PCs that need them. If your hardware works well already, you don't need that.