Distro

orionskull

I'm a newbie so don't thrash me if this is a stupid question.
Has anyone been involved in building a distro or ever thought about making a distro? If you have, what was the experience like? Difficult or easy? I found this web site that seemed pretty interserting.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ :oops:

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Submitted by orionskull on Fri, 2005-05-20 23:57. login or register to post comments

clivesay
Re:Distro

You might try talking to Rob at Feather Linux. He was a one person development team. He recently decided he didn't have enough time to develop Feather and is looking to hand it over to someone else for development.

http://featherlinux.berlios.de

Chris

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Mon, 2005-05-23 09:13 login or register to post comments

tlyons
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Re:Distro

Maybe our LUG could adopt the project. We could rename it "CINLUX"

Nah.

- T.

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Mon, 2005-05-23 15:03 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Re:Distro

tlyons wrote:
Maybe our LUG could adopt the project. We could rename it "CINLUX"

Nah.

- T.

Why compete w/ Mark Lesh's Alchemy Linux?

(For those of you who don't know Mark, he was a long time member of the CINLUG board of directors and was also on the board of INLUC, the predecessor to CINLUG.)


Mon, 2005-05-23 18:23 login or register to post comments

tlyons
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Re:Distro

I couldn't find anything there available to download. Do you have to be a member? Looks like releases aren't frequent anyway.

Anyone used Sorceror or SourceMage? What is the command syntax like? "Eye of crow and tooth of boar, chmod this file to 444?"

- T.

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Tue, 2005-05-24 08:58 login or register to post comments

clivesay
Re:Distro

It appears nothing is going on at Alchemy or it's in startup mode. I would hate to start another distro unless you had something very unique to offer. There are already so many out there!

BTW - Interesting to note that Mepis (Warren Wolford) is now developing MepisLite as a Win98 replacement. That now brings the Mepis versions to at least 3 (MepisLite, SimplyMepis, ProMepis) with more to come. I think he also has a server version in the works. I don't know how he's going to manage it all!! He now has a software distributor also. Looks like he's really trying to elevate the distro.

Chris

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Tue, 2005-05-24 10:27 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Re:Distro

tlyons wrote:
I couldn't find anything there available to download. Do you have to be a member? Looks like releases aren't frequent anyway.

Anyone used Sorceror or SourceMage? What is the command syntax like? "Eye of crow and tooth of boar, chmod this file to 444?"

- T.

I don't know if Mark has anything available to download yet. He started with Sorceror as the base for Alchemy iirc. Whatever build-it-yourself distro he was working with fragmented or stopped developing so he decided to make his own.


Tue, 2005-05-24 12:00 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Re:Distro

schultmc wrote:

I don't know if Mark has anything available to download yet. He started with Sorceror as the base for Alchemy iirc.

According to the front page of www.alchemylinux.com:

AlchemyLinux.com wrote:

AlchemyLinux is a source code based distribution in the spirit of Sorcerer Linux. The implementation is not derived from Sorcerer, but from Linux From Scratch (LFS). It also incorporates a completely new XML-based build engine called Alchemy.

Mark's been working on it for several years but has been very busy with other things - it'll be interesting to see what he releases when he gets a chance.


Tue, 2005-05-24 12:42 login or register to post comments