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Using make xconfig

Using make xconfig - CentOS Tutorial

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Using make xconfig

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about configuring a Linux kernel using the tool make xconfig. With make xconfig, there's a GUI interface now that you can use with your mouse. And we have the same list of options that we would have with make menuconfig, it's just that we can navigate a little bit differently using our mouse now. We get the tree structure for options. And in fact, we can click and expand the choices, so it can be a little bit easier to find things. With make xconfig, we'll have a dot being a module and a check mark meaning statically linked in the kernel. And empty means that that feature won't be built. One thing I like about xconfig compared to menuconfig is, I find searching is easier with xconfig. So there's, underneath the edit menu, a find option or Control + F. And like with the slash for menuconfig, it will find all the config options that include a string. And with make xconfig, when you get a…

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