New distro. Ideas?

[Freedom]

Ok, so here's the deal. I have gone years and years going from distro to distro trying to find out what is best for me. I have still never found the perfect one so I told myself, "Time to make my own". So anyways, I was wondering what you guys would like to see in this new distro. This will be build from the ground up and I need some good advice and possibly some people to create a developer team for the project as well. Anyways, fire away!

[oz]

I think there are enough different distros available already. Your time would probably be better spent on helping the devs with an existing distro.

[Freedom]

Hmmm... That's true. Why reinvent the wheel eh? Was all just a thought :P

[techieMoe]

Ok, so here's the deal. I have gone years and years going from distro to distro trying to find out what is best for me. I have still never found the perfect one so I told myself, "Time to make my own". So anyways, I was wondering what you guys would like to see in this new distro.

If it's a distro tailored to what you personally want, why should you care what our opinions are? I'm not trying to be cheeky, I just don't understand the nature of the question. Shouldn't you already know what you want?

This will be build from the ground up and I need some good advice and possibly some people to create a developer team for the project as well. Anyways, fire away!

Why create an entirely new distribution and worry about development teams, download mirrors, dev cycles, and whatnot? Why not just use something like Linux From Scratch to tailor a Linux installation the way you see fit.

[Freedom]

The thing about it is, there are things that would work wonderfully yet I have not thought of. Therefore, I was looking for advice. Secondly, if I DO decide to do it, I suppose I may use LFS. Thanks for bringing up there points Moe.

[carlosponti]

me and a guy i work with have been playing with the ubuntu alt. install cd installing a command line ubuntu then installing things to get to a working desktop with a very small hard drive requirement. basic install with x you can get in around 800 mb or so. been playing with the different options.

[Agent-X]

I want all of the configuration files in an OS to be easy to replace. Well, perhaps simply for the graphical user interface and perhaps some devices.

I want a Live-CD that has an easier way to permanent device naming.
For instance, I want it to have an easy-to-notice configuration file that can be altered and reset.

I've read about udev, and whatever else came with doing the device naming. It's been a while, but I tried it. I didn't get it to work too well. I know how to do it through the GUI. But that takes a lot of time when using the Live-CD. That gets annoying and repetitive on each boot. I want to know which configuration file I can alter to make things speed up. By knowing these things, I can delete the original and replace with an altered.

I do that with xorg.conf a lot.

I like nautilus and gnome, but I haven't figured out how to alter the taskbar to insert and alter applets.
Another annoyance with nautilus/gnome would be the the x-y icon coordinates of the desktop.

Supposedly, nautilus provide a way to change their position if you right-click and pull up options.
In ubuntu feisty, it's "Clean up by name."

However, I want to do that from the terminal. I could replace the x-y icon file that is hidden inside of the home folder, but I don't want to make one for each different type of Live-CD setup I have. Oh man, that would be time consuming.

I've read that some people think that option would be neat, too. I think it was because their icons were in constant disarray for each login. Something was screwy. Therefore, the person wanted to create a delayed script to realign everything when logging back in.

I've got a good grasp on tons of stuff, but some stuff just isn't too easy to figure out. I find that knowing which files to alter/create helps in the process.

To say the least, I like an OS that gives me power when I use these few things:

1. The terminal
2. Scripts
3. The copy command (to replace configuration files)

[rayburn]

me and a guy i work with have been playing with the ubuntu alt. install cd installing a command line ubuntu then installing things to get to a working desktop with a very small hard drive requirement. basic install with x you can get in around 800 mb or so. been playing with the different options.

I'd be interested in what you actually have to install to get to this, as I tried a while ago and couldn't succeed.

Any chance you could post the packages involved to do this please?

Thanks.

[devils casper]

Ok, so here's the deal. I have gone years and years going from distro to distro trying to find out what is best for me. I have still never found the perfect one so I told myself, "Time to make my own". So anyways, I was wondering what you guys would like to see in this new distro. This will be build from the ground up and I need some good advice and possibly some people to create a developer team for the project as well. Anyways, fire away!

I have tried a lot of distros. Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, Slackware, Sabayon, Arch and list goes on. Each distro has its own merits/demerits.
I couldn't find a perfect distro untill I got my hands on Debian Lenny ( netinstall ). What is perfect for me could be imperfect for others so I am not saying that Debian Lenny is Perfect for every one.
Debian Netinstall + packages that I want. I can't bear a single package in my OS which I dont use. My distro should have better HW support, easy to use Package manager and bleeding edge packages should be available. Debian Lenny is the answer for me.

[Dapper Dan]

Distro ideas I have had...

1. A bare minimum Slackware installation, perhaps starting with Slax Frodo, and you compile what you want, using the Crux repositories with CruxPorts4Slack. That way you get the dependability and basic configurations of Slackware with the wonderful Crux ports for all package management. I guess such a distro would necessarily have to be called "CruxWare" or maybe "Crax."

One I believe would be really popular is a Linux Live CD(s), crammed with every Linux hardware driver known and Ndiswrapper, sort of like Sabayon but with a major difference: A built in hardware detecting utility on the CD would search your box for all hardware, and then proceed to configure and compile a custom kernel with ONLY the drivers that that particular box needs. After all or nearly all hardware is operational, you then use the Internet to build up your system compiling just the apps and utilities you want as you do with Gentoo and Crux. Taking all those other hundreds of drivers out of a custom made kernel would likely make for a screamingly fast Linux computer. I think this is very do-able, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to make it happen.