There was a lot of building from sources in mid-1990&#x27;s (Linux 0.99 and all that), but ever since Ubuntu came out, there&#x27;s been just no need.<p>I&#x27;m not missing that X86Config tweaking, either. But perhaps I&#x27;ve grown old; when I find a laptop that doesn&#x27;t come up with X in RHEL, I just think it&#x27;s a bad laptop.