[Gllug] Roll your own

[gllug at uncertainty.org.uk]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:51:40PM +0000, Walid wrote:
> James Bailey wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I just been looking into roll your own linux distribution. I'm sure it may 
> > have been mentioned on the list before but have we thought of make a GLUG 
> > distribution, just how we like it...
> 
> Sorry, Posted before finishing!!
> 
> Where have you been Looking?; the good two places I know of are :
> BYO          http://www.byolinux.org/theindex.asp
> LFS          http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
> 
> There is ALFS which basically you can define profiles, so you can have a
> profile for the server, Gnome workstation, Debian profile, RH profile, the
> possibility are endless!!!, and the good thing about it will make automated
> Install, you do not have to wait 2 days, or weekends until you have made you
> distro


I gave up on LFS after 
a) I realised that make is even worse than rpm at sprinkling files all over your system 
b) I realised that rpm is really powerfull, can build from source 
c) I decided to learn how to rolll my own rpms (haven't domne it yet)
c) The ALFS list degenerated intoo a war for/against rpm

oh yeah and my LFS system worked - but had several little bugs in it - I
decided I quite like using distros that have had proper testing :)

-- 

Sean
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