How To Roll Your Own Linux Distro (InformationWeek)
Remastering, or respinning, involves installing a given distribution, customizing it, and then recompiling the distribution, modifications and all, back into an image file (typically an .ISO). In the last couple of years this approach has become much easier thanks to collections of community-created tools and scripts to automate the process, so it's something that is rapidly becoming a native function for many distributions. If you're just getting your feet wet with Linux and want to try your hand at creating a modified distribution, this is the best place to start."
Posted Jan 24, 2008 1:35 UTC (Thu)
by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
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Strange that there isn't a mention of Fedora, which now has an extensive set of roll-your-own tools.
Posted Jan 24, 2008 2:23 UTC (Thu)
by kornak (guest, #17589)
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Posted Jan 24, 2008 15:56 UTC (Thu)
by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
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How To Roll Your Own Linux Distro (InformationWeek)
How To Roll Your Own Linux Distro (InformationWeek)
I have noticed something regarding the popular media as well as the Linux community that
Redhat/Fedora is being ignored even though the primary contributions come from these
distributions. I might be completely off base but it seems that this is a case of forgetting
the "forest for the trees".
How To Roll Your Own Linux Distro (InformationWeek)
They also "ignored" Debian, OpenSUSE, and a bunch of others. That article is not meant to be
cover all the possible options of generating your own modified Linux Distribution.