Create own custom Linux Distribution

[linuxkid_01]

The LFS book itself only provides a base system. BLFS is the book you should look into for doing things like KDE. The current BLFS book covers installing KDE 3.4.1 (current version of KDE is 3.5.2).

Bryan

Thankyou . Where can I find HOWTO's for LFS and BLFS?

[bryansmith]

Linux From Scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Main Book (LFS): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/

Bryan

[linuxkid_01]

Linux From Scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Main Book (LFS): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/

Bryan

Thankyou. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[Kojak]

As already said, apart from learning something about Linux, it is rather useless to add distro number 501 to the list. Better take a look at existing distros and ask to join a project. It will teach you much more than if you are trying to do it all yourself, as there is more to building a distro than compiling and thinking of a system-layout.

[attilathepun]

You'll learn a tremendous amount by building it from scratch, but unless you've had a college-level operating systems class I doubt it'd be too feasible. One interesting option would be to download the source and, in the directory you place the source code, running a search (remember recursive subdirectories, of course) for files containing "Mandriva". Then change or remove it in every file that comes up.

This would be a little dangerous, unless you know what you're doing. I'm not saying I don't think you do, I'm just saying I have no clue how much experience and how many classes you've had. As of now, I could never build my own Linux distro, I would have a lot to learn.