Dave Phillips has a great article on arpeggiators for Linux, go check it out:
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I’ve long wanted to get a handle on packaging kernels for Debian, and thanks to this article, now I’m trying it. Unfortunately the process is a little involved, and I’m not entirely sure I’m doing it right. Nevertheless, it’s going well so far.
So why package your own kernel? In short, Debian kernels are not vanilla kernels, and many times self-compiled kernels can leave a little to be desired. By following their official packaging procedures, you have a better chance of building something that not only works, but others can use.
Speaking of others…
None of this is very useful if it can’t be shared, so I’m looking into moving the entire thing to a public git repository. git is all the rage right now, everyone is doing it. I’ve often toyed with the idea of keeping my life in a private git repo, but that’s a bit overkill – I mean really, wtf is so important in my life that I can’t lose it? 
Time
There never seems to be enough time for anything anymore. Holding down the 8 to 5 followed by doing a piss-poor job at being a dad leaves little time to take care of personal projects. (They don’t tell you these things when you’re 16 and looking to get laid.) Time management appears to be the thing I need to be focusing on, primarily because I’m simply not getting anything done. By the time you subtract out all of the have-tos, you’re only left with an hour or two each day, and maybe then not even that. What else can go? Sleep? I’ll be 35 this November, and I don’t see sleep getting less important anytime soon.
More later…
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
