The big break (for me) in configuring the options was the very welcome addition of "make menuconfig" to replace the original "make config". As the number of su

The big break (for me) in configuring the options was the very welcome addition of "make menuconfig" to replace the original "make config". As the number of supported filesystems/drivers/options increased, it could take more than an hour to get through a "make config". I haven't built my own kernel for more than 15 years, but I probably built more than a dozen before that, each of them re-compiled upon every new release (going back to 0.98).