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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:48:18AM +0100, wintermute wrote:
> Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> > Don't like SuSE's product licensing?  Write your own distribution.  You
> > can even grab most of what you need _from SuSE_.  All you have to do is
> > heed the licensing terms on the individual pieces.
> How unimaginably difficult is this to do?
It shouldn't be too hard.  Red Hat, for example, ships with everything
you need to build a modified distribution.  And it's all GPL (or free
> There are as far as I know, no Linux kernel hackers,
> that originate from this fair island right?
> Yes it might be very,very difficult and subject to abject failure
> in sticking together a distro.... call it Dolmen Linux (or other),
> no doubt the packaging system would be one of the first places
> Some (like me) favouring a FreeBSD style ports system others favouring
>  a Debian style system and others still favouring *rpm style packaging.
> That said other *LUG have done interesting things like making blackbox.
> Perhaps making a distro would be ..... umm.... fun.
There was talk of this in the past.  Taking a regular distribution like
Red Hat or Debian and tweaking it for Ireland - things like translations,