Making Your Own Linux

jjr writes: "Have you ever wanted to make your own Linux distro? Now at www.linuxfromscratch.org you can teach yourself how Linux works and even make your own Linux distro from the info they have at this site." This looks like a cool resource especially if your school or place of employ (or coven, biker gang, hunter-gatherer tribe, etc.) wants to create a site- or affinity-specific distribution.

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That's sorta old, no?

[pnevares]

There's been a Linux from Scratch HOWTO for a while now, very interesting reading.

Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".

Slashdot poll suggestion

[PollMastah]

What is the main reason you'd like to assemble your own Linux distro?

1. It's a good learning experience for people who want to know exactly how the different parts fit together.
2. It allows total control over what you put into your system.
3. The standard Linux distributions are too bloated for my tastes.
4. I just like re-inventing the wheel, especially square ones.
5. 'cos RedHat sucks.
6. 'cos CmdrTaco rules.
7. Yuck. I prefer to stick with an existing distro.
8. What, you mean anybody from highschool can actually assemble their own Linux system?!! God forbid! This is a security hazard! We better report this to the FBI!

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SlashLinux

[Signal 11]

I heard Rob was going to release SlashLinux after reading this site, but then somebody asked him about it so he delayed its release 24 hours.

/. Effect - Mirror

[big_hairy_mama]

It seems to be suffering from a little bit of the /. effect, so I put up a mirror of the actual document at http://www.pdavis.cx/HOWTO/LFS-BOOK/in dex.html. This not the whole site, just the document (the development version).

Looks like I need three

[hedgehog_uk]

This looks like a cool resource especially if your school or place of employ (or coven, biker gang, hunter-gatherer tribe, etc.) wants to create a site- or affinity-specific distribution.

I'm employed, I'm wiccan and I'm a biker. Looks like I'm going to be very busy creating distros!

HH

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.

Re:Interesting, but not what's needed

[Skapare]

I've been building a "fast install" of Linux based on Slackware 7.0 with many of my local mods (including a total rewrite of the sysinit rc scripts). The full install takes less than 8 minutes (when started from a HD based rescue partition) which is faster than some systems can even get booted up. Smaller configurations should go even faster. And this even includes repartitioning and reformatting. The configuration to be installed is entirely separate from the configuration of the system that serves the installation.

There is no concensus on what proper configuration management tools is, yet. What I am aiming for is less need to actually do any configuration. Right now the configuration I actually do involves editing files because there are no configuration tools around that know how to configure a collection of modularized installation feature groups as I have now. For those who prefer menu and/or graphical based central configuration, such tools will be needed. Since I'm not one who uses such tools, I would be a poor choice to program that part of the project. Maybe you could do that part?

I'm also currently looking at basing this from Debian 2.2. I would have to figure out how to change dpkg/apt so it can install into the installation repository instead of the host system, or run on the target machines and obtain configuration preferences from the central machine (e.g. what to install, etc).