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