[Gllug] Could you build a distro?

[Steve Parker]

On 06/06/11 17:39, James Hawtin wrote:
> 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.
>
Almost exactly my own story. The LFS book was a useful tool, too, IME. 
Installing something like GNUCash took days of reading docs and cursing 
the GNUCash devs. I think they've changed their development methods at 
least once since then, though.

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