Ultimately I believe the users should have say in what they want to see in a Linux distro. The goal is for this to be a near perfect distro driven by the community. One day I will have my own forum, and from there the development will continue. So for starters what distro should I build it on? I was thinking Slack, Gentoo, or Arch however it's up to you guys. I will update this as soon as a distro has been selected so probably in a few days to a week, so make this thread as chaotic as possible. I want everyone's thoughts, even those running Windows or OS X (just why)...
10/04/14: I would also like to ask how you guys feel about sysVinit. It seems to provide more options for the power user. Once again, your call. I'm just a developer.
10/05/14: I'm going to try SUSE Studio for now. My next question is what DE would you guys like to see? I like Gnome for accessibility reasons however it's your choice.
Sounds interesting - I'll keep my eye on this thread.
If you find contributors I may be interested.
Awesome. I was thinking of posting it in GitHub until I have a forum.
Well, save yourself some trouble and go for a rolling release model. Don't use systemd, find a strong libc, and prepare to spend a lot of time compiling.
Good luck - I've gotten my "distro" to boot before, but the work it took to maintain wasn't worth the tiny performance increase I got from a streamlined Clang system.
@brennanriddel
..."Good luck - I've gotten my "distro" to boot before, but the work it took to maintain wasn't worth the tiny performance increase I got from a streamlined Clang system."
Aren't you like 15 years old with a little over a years' experience with linux? Well that's what your reddit history tells us anyway. Congratulations you are the youngest most inexperienced person ever to create their own distro - kudos.
@westcoatbadboy
..."Run from that idea..Unless you know like 30 dependable people who know c and c++ ect."
Not sure if you even linux but you just need a couple of core devs for distro specific applications, testing, package/repo management. A few dedicated maintainers for the major software stacks mono/kernel/DE packages etc. Then you need a couple of web dev/designers to take care of forums/website/digitalmedia etc.
All of this can be done with a few good people, but some of us have to work so time restraints are inevitable on such projects.
Thank you. I've made plenty of distros before. Just never cared enough to post them. However their depth won't even be comparable to what I'm doing here.
Pretty sure that FreeBSD is community driven. I could be wrong, but it seems like they are basically what you want to do. You might think about joining that community instead of trying to make your own. I'm all for freedom of expression, creativity, and doing things yourself, but why reinvent the wheel?
It really isn't reinventing the wheel as FreeBSD has a different file infrastructure in comparison to Linux. Why start anew when the Linux community topples that of BSD? Funny, I've no suggestions as to the distro, but rather constructive criticism and those who find this project interesting.
Start out by using SUSEstudio, this is a very simple but very good distro creator, build something and post its DL link here, you can web test and fix things online, if any bugs appear in your distro it will give you the idea of fixing a actual distro, and how time consuming it can become.
I know its not a true copy of LFS and then uploading the image, but its close enough for a first timer
I would like to see where this goes if this is for TS, I wonder if Sabayon's Steam Box mode could be ported to it.
How do you start programming distros? I have done work with C++ and some Java, for Android, and am in my first year of computer science. How much do I need to know?
..."How much do I need to know?"
How long is a piece of string? - The answer is; a novice made majaro, a student made linuxmint.
All you need is the passion to do it really.
Here's Clem's (the linux mint core developer) todo list ---> Linky
Thank you one again. I feel as if people get more and more lazy every minute. I WILL be making a distro soon, and it WILL be as big as Mint (hopefully). I hate it when people act as if maintaining something is rocket science.
I am not lazy, just pretty clueless. I am gonna go read about linux distro development now, and I would love to help with this if there is something I can do.