How to Build Your Own Linux Distro

http://twitter.com/chrispirillo - Chances are by now you've messed around with Linux. And of course, Linux may have messed around with you. Unless you know what you're doing, it can be a real mess. So, there are distros you can download to help you along. These distributions are built by other people with different needs and ideas than what you have. So what are you left to do? How can you build your own distro? http://chris.pirillo.com - http://geeks.pirillo.com

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[70rm3n70r]

LFS , linux from scratch

[gruntlover2]

@mysteryloser24 I have wrote my own kernel in x86 assembly but no I have never stolen anyones source , I would never do that. And I have two OSes one written 100% in assembly and another that uses the cosmos kernel. But i have never took anybodys code or edited anyones code. And I was never talking about the command prompt all I was saying was that going to a website and checking boxes is not making an OS. By any means. If you really wanted to make a linux distro use LFS

[HomeInventors]

I understand how this may be helpful to people who can't code or are lazy. But building an OS from scratch takes time, sadly I dont have time. I just arch Linux and make my own GUI and then install my dev programs

[JegasLLC]

I'm going through Linux From Scratch .org - I also wrote my OS years ago, in assembly - but I recall the hardware ports were a pain, each hardware type meant all new code - not trivial... call backs in assembly etc... say for hard drive - floppies, USB is sure to be more of the same - plus all the video cards? Console support plus... I think I'll try Linux from Scratch - it's about as close to rolling my own I'm willing to try. These shortcut -sites are kind of lame. Puppy or Woof is neat too.

[mysteryloser24]

@gruntlover2 I expect there used to be a point in your life when you would sit in Command Prompt typing things like "Echo I am going to hack you!" What you are doing now is ridiculing people for being in the same position you used to be in. I am willing to bet that more than half of your code was taken from other sources and edited. The Linux Kernel itself is a good example. I highly doubt you wrote your own kernel. In fact, I'm almost positive you wouldn't know how.

[gruntlover2]

@mysteryloser24 Well it has OS at the end of the name. So just calling it that is kind of like describing it as an OS. And i bet $1000 it was written in Visual BASIC.

[mysteryloser24]

@gruntlover2 Never spent hours sitting on my computer writing code? Yes. Yes, I have. And I know exactly what JerichOS is. I do not describe it as an OS, nor as a Virtual OS. It is an IOS. If you do not know what that is(not Apple iDevice OS), it's a Graphical system of operations. It gives the user an interface between themselves and the hardware that differs from the actual OS. It is a shell of sorts, indeed, but it's much more than that.

[gruntlover2]

@mysteryloser24 You have never spent hours sitting on your computer writting code 24 / 7. Programming is art form , using suse is like stealing someones work. And also I am sorry to admit it but Jerico OS is not an OS. A os can run 100% independently from windows. Also it not a Virtual OS either it is just a graphical shell

[mysteryloser24]

@mysteryloser24 I see you're building an OS yourself. I am willing to bet that large chunks of that OS came from elsewhere, so you're now contradicting yourself.

[mysteryloser24]

@gruntlover2 I don't see how it is. If you were to build a wall, you'd use bricks, right? Did you make the bricks you use? No. Someone else did, and you're using them to build your wall. That's all SuseStudio is, building a distro from other peoples bricks. In the essence of the word, this IS building a distro. If you find it insulting that some people just want a custom distro that has what they want in it and nothing more, then frankly, you're a bit of a loser...

[gruntlover2]

@mysteryloser24 Still , it is insulting