Is it hard to compile your own Linux distro?

[sigs3gv]

I've gotten sick of every distro. None of them fit my needs. I was wondering whether it is worth the effort to build my own distro from scratch. Any experiences?

 

[Nothinman]

Not really, you'll just spend hours upon hours compiling things for no good reason. Have you ever tried to compile 1 package? Multiple that wasted time and disk space by the thousands. You could try out LFS if you really want, but it's not really good for more than just a learning experience.

Personally, I can't see why anyone would use anything other than Ubuntu or Debian anyway.

 

[phisrow]

It isn't too terribly difficult to build one from scratch(and LFS can help you). The real nuisance is keeping one up to date without any assistance(either in the form of package managment, or in the form of similarly crazed enthusiasts). Unless you fundamentally hate all of the major package management schema(APT, RPM, Portage) you would really be better off starting with a minimal install of one of the standard distros, and then building it up from there. Pretty much the same level of customization, save for a few distro specific scripts and whatnot, without the profound suffering and/or unsafe packages left on your system forever.

 

[bersl2]

Did you try Slackware?

 

[sigs3gv]

Originally posted by: bersl2
Did you try Slackware?

I'm using that right now. It's a pretty good distro except a few problems. Are there any tutorials that can show me how to repackage Slackware with my own kernels, etc?

 

[rmrf]

as other's have said, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/, is the way to go. I've done it, but after you get a successful compile, the coolness wears off and I just installed debian.

 

[Cynicist]

gentoo ftw

 

[gruven]

Originally posted by: Cynicist
gentoo ftw

 

[Nothinman]

gentoo ftw

FTW must mean "For Time Wasting" in this instance.

 

[sourceninja]

There is really nothing you can do in LFS that you can't do in gentoo. That includes stupid flags for compiling and turning your system into a big hulk of crap. I suggest giving it a try.