Greg Wooledge wrote: > Hardware was also becoming more powerful, as one would expect. More RAM > meant less pressure to produce minimalist kernel images. > > All of these things put together meant that for most users, Debian's > kernel images were good enough that they didn't feel a need to build > their own kernels.
+ disk space got cheeper, so one could compile all drivers, install them and don't care and let initrd make skript pick up what is needed to load at boot - the rest would stay there and be loaded (later triggers in udev) if needed.
