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== What is a Kernel Flavour? ==

It is impossible to build a single kernel for every occasion, any such configuration cannot be optimal for all use cases.  As a result we offer a number of kernel variants for each release, these variants termed ''flavours''.  We commonly refer to those flavours using the flavour name, for example: ''generic'', ''generic-pae'', and ''server''.