[How To] Build your own Linux distribution! The easy (& fast) way…
This time it’s one of those things that most of us dreamed about doing but never had either skills or time to. It’s “How to build your own custom Linux system?” Why is it so important to do so? It’s not really, but if you could have an OS that had all the applications, games, codecs & such (that you use most often) “out of the box” without the need of spending time & installing them afterwards wouldn’t you want to have a system like that? On top of that, think about all the software that clutters your hard drive & you never ever, even once turned on but it came preinstalled with your distribution? Wouldn’t it be just great not to deal with it? Well, I don’t know about you but it sounds awesome to me… So to answer that need (or my curiosity if you may) I’ve spend some quality 1-on-1 time with the internet & found few of the sollutions that can just achieve that. Anyway, to get to the heart of the thing, the software or more likely a web app I’m going to talk about here is SUSE Studio. Now, you may think that there’s no proper Linux other than Ubuntu/Debian based distros but that is wrong. And untruth. Both. ^__^ I do run either Ubuntu or Mint on my main machine on a daily basis & I’ve converted both of my parents to use Ubuntu rather than Windows too, however I do not think of it as definite OS. I consider it more as of the OS that answers more of my needs than any others do. That said it could change if I could customize a distribution to fully have what I’m looking for …