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mehulved · 03-06-2006, 02:59 AM

Yes Anurag. I agree with you that it's is a really great learning experience to make your own distro and I am wanting to make one too.
But, there was one point made by eddie which sounds valid to me. What about updates? It is necessary to keep up-to-date with the latest patches and all to keep your distro working fine and secure. So, basically making your own distro is only good as far as learning or live cd is concerned. If you wanna install it on your computer, it isn't much useful for long as you will be left behind in terms of latest softwares. Cos it is not feasible for a single user to keep on testing and compiling new version, solve dependencies and spend so much time on the distro. Or am I missing some point here.

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mehulved 18 Till I Die............ Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: India, Mumbai, Marine Lines Posts: 5,792	Re: How can I start makin' my own linux distro? Yes Anurag. I agree with you that it's is a really great learning experience to make your own distro and I am wanting to make one too. But, there was one point made by eddie which sounds valid to me. What about updates? It is necessary to keep up-to-date with the latest patches and all to keep your distro working fine and secure. So, basically making your own distro is only good as far as learning or live cd is concerned. If you wanna install it on your computer, it isn't much useful for long as you will be left behind in terms of latest softwares. Cos it is not feasible for a single user to keep on testing and compiling new version, solve dependencies and spend so much time on the distro. Or am I missing some point here.