Hi, Marcus, I like your proposal! Excuse me for my bad English, my mother language is the Hungarian. I like your idea, and I have created already a „distro”, just for myself, with my own scripts, based on the LFS of course, but followed it not in each fiddle-faddle. Nay.... Because, I used in that project own filesystem-hierarchy! I write this message to you because I think, although your idea is good, but in this "GNU" distro any package manager isn't necessary! In my distro it doesn't exist. Superfluous. I install/remove/etc packages via my own scripts, and the "database of the package manager" is the FILESYSTEM. This is akin/alike as in the "GoboLinux" distro. (Check it please, it has english webpage!) The docs about my "distro" is available at this link: http://mek.oszk.hu/12900/12996/index.phtml# of course in hungarian language, sorry, but it is quite understable even for people with any mother tongue, because it include all scripts, and all commands step-by-step, about first how I created the temporary system, and then, how I installed the packages into the final system. I use even a few C/C++ programs, too, but of course the book include even theirs source codes. Best regards!
2016-07-13 22:16 GMT+00:00 Marcus Fonzarelli <[email protected]>: > Hello everybody, > > I'm a long time GNU/Linux user, and after many years of hopping > from distro to distro I'm thinking that I'd really love a "GNU distro". > I've read the book LFS, and tried to make a distro on my own, but I'm not a > system administrator and it's quite difficult for me to make any > significant progress. If I understand correctly ALFS is a tool to automate > part of this process, but it's still complex for me to get through it. > > I'd like to know if anybody is interested enough to start a new project, a > new distro (maybe called "GNU") with these characteristics: > > - uses a blob-free kernel (linux-libre) > - installs official GNU packages only, from official GNU repos > - after being installed, allows users to add more repos in case they want > to install non-gnu software > - source based. This is not really super important to me, but I think it's > easier to maintain than having to build all binaries > - the distro should be minimalist, and should only install the necessary > software to have a system that boots and does basic things (including a > package manager) > - once the base system is installed, the user can proceed to install more > software using the package manger (for example a windows manager, text > editor, browser, etc.). I believe this could help keeping the distro simple > and minimalist > > What do you guys think? I can help with this, but as I said I'm no > sysadmin so I don't really know how could I contribute. > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > Do not top post on this list. > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style >
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