[Gllug] Could you build a distro?

[James Hawtin]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:00 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
>
>   
>> beats minimum wage, but I like the problem solving.
>>     
>
> But producing a distro isn't problem solving. Once you pick up the tools
> for it the process is very simple and very boring.
>   
I used to roll my own distro, when i looked at Redhat 5.2 (not to be 
mistaken for a neerw OS version), I decided compared to my Solaris it 
didn't feel as finished, I could do a better job myself and that would 
teach me how things worked (for the move from Solaris->Linux (driver 
support being the problem with solaris), and I kept using it for 10+ 
years replicating it via tar, having transitioned form a 2.2 to a 2.4 
kernel (Never did a 2.6 move). The real killer was all the libraries 
used in systems like Gnome, I evenually switched to CentOS 4 (having 
briefly deciding Fedora changed to fast as was not for me), my final 
compute running my own distro was on my firewall, which I switched to 
OpenBSD.

I can say... finding compatible libraries is a pain in the ***. 
Sometimes I miss the flexibility of having what I want, however getting 
someone else to worry about libraries and security of the binaries is 
well worth it. If I need something special I can always install a second 
copy of something.

James


PS I am not looking for a job, just recounting a story.
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