Lansing, Dan wrote: > As all newbs do at some point I would like to come up with my own distro to call my own..... I 2nd LFS (Linux From Scratch). I haven't done it myself yet but looked at it and it seems well documented. I doesn't seem like it assumes that one knows too much before starting. You build everything yourself and only get what you want in your distro. As far as packaging goes, look at checkinstall to help you build slackware style tgz packages. It's pretty nifty. > Also in slack how do I make an iso out of a cd? I have the tools and knowledge to do this in windows but I feel like a hypocrite making a Linux distro in windows..... As far as how to create your own slackware cd/iso: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/os/slackware/slackware-9.0/isolinux/README.TXT <opinion> I too love Slackware and think it's great for servers. If you don't customize it too much upgrades are pretty easy. When I need complete control over a box and I want to get it up and running as fast as possible, Slackware is my choice. That being said, I'm a recent Debian convert, at least for a workstation. There are so many packages and apt-get just rules for how it handles dependencies. I have found it takes longer to setup some things under Debian because they do it their way (but all distros put their own spin on things); it could also be my lack of experience with Debian so far. :) From what I've seen, the upgrade path is the best of all linux distros. If you want all the bells and whistles and can put aside a little time to learn the Debian way, Debian is worth it. </opinion> -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list