Distribution Development
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How were the first distributions developed? Somewhere along the line, someone has to deviate and create an entirely different idea. That's how we have so many distributions with their own derivatives: Red Hat, Slackware, Debian...etc etc.
The biggest goal I have is to get a basic system started that's designed specifically the way I want it and not dependent on the host's own depencies on different tools, libraries or the like. For instance, one of the things that got me started on this idea was how unfriendly Slackware (my own personal favorite) was to udev and the device manipulation of udev-hal-dbus. Slackware can't run without the hotplug package (it seems). One of my objectives for my own distribution was to create a distro that has Slackware's performance and minimalist philosophy, but that also has the conveniences of a more modern distro like Ubuntu or Red Hat.
I'm running an AMD 2.6.9-34.EL box with a couple of IDE maxtor drives. I see a lot of this kind of stuff in myvar...
At this point, I think the most exciting thing for me would be to be able to get an entirely independent system that just boots, runs an init of some kind and puts me at a shell. I don't want anything too grand at this stage, just to see how that fits together would be pretty exciting for me. Maybe I'm just easily amused.
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