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RaGe2012
06-27-2003, 07:21 PM
Out of sheer curiosity, I was wondering what is involved in making a full-fledged Linux distribution that is all my own. Was wondering if there are any tools out there that let you create an installer program and such and what is required to create such a thing...I mean, I just want to know what it takes to make a fully self-sufficient, free-standing commercial-like distro (eg. Red Hat, Slackware).
I've already looked at Linux From Scratch (LFS) but it has not really answered my question.
TheHeadRoach
06-27-2003, 07:55 PM
Originally posted by RaGe2012
Out of sheer curiosity, I was wondering what is involved in making a full-fledged Linux distribution that is all my own. Was wondering if there are any tools out there that let you create an installer program and such and what is required to create such a thing...I mean, I just want to know what it takes to make a fully self-sufficient, free-standing commercial-like distro (eg. Red Hat, Slackware).
I've already looked at Linux From Scratch (LFS) but it has not really answered my question.
Ingredients for your own distro:
Alot of spare time
Infinite patience
Intimate knowledge of Linux
Just a pinch of love :)
(This last ingredient is what I feel allows slackware to lay the proverbial smack down on the rest of your distros)
saithan
06-27-2003, 08:11 PM
a good place to start looking at how installs are made is to look at redhat.
the redhat installer is mainly written in python scripts. and gtk-python tk-python.
those might be of some help.
The Roach has it right (and you better have some code-savy friends with a lot of spare time as well).
Also, there really isn't any point in spending the time creating yet another Linux distro unless you feel that you can offer some very significant improvements over the current offerings.