[TriLUG] JOB? - create customized distro

Magnus magnus at trilug.org
Fri Jun 15 14:50:01 EDT 2007


Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> I'm talking at least partly (maybe completely) out of my arse here,
> but... As I understand it, a big part of the Fedora 7 release involves
> changes to the build system to make it easy for people to tailor their
> own distro(s).  And they have a LiveCD now, for sure.  So it might
> (maybe) be worth taking a look at the Fedora project stuff and
> see if maybe that would allow you to build what you need.
> 
> Or not, I haven't actually worked with any of that stuff myself
> yet, so I could be way off... :-)


Also if you are inclined to want a debian/ubuntu flavored live CD, the
Gnewsense project has published tools and documentation for rolling your
own Ubuntu-ish live CD (complete with installer).

Check out their wiki on the subject:
http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution



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