Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:44:22PM -0700, Stefan N typed: Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? There is a distinction. eg PC-BSD is a derivative while DragonFlyBSD is a fork. What do you want? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. I think you want to read the release(7) manpage. make release BUILDNAME=StefanBSD will get you what you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. Thank you in advance. Regards, Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? You change the source code and compile How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile. Good luck! -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Le Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:44:22 -0700 (PDT), Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com a écrit : How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. # setenv UNAME_s PatrickBSD # setenv UNAME_r 1.0-RELEASE # setenv UNAME_v PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 # uname -a PatrickBSD net.lamaiziere.net 1.0-RELEASE PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 i386 forked! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi The FreeBSD from scratch article has a lot of good ideas on how to do this. The article is somewhat dated, however, so your going to have to check that some of the methods are still current, and adapt them to your taste: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/article.html Regards, Traiano From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Stefan N [stefanbsd...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. Thank you in advance. Regards, Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? Regards, Stefanus From: Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com To: Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 7:51:50 PM Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? You change the source code and compile How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile. Good luck! -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
Hi Patrick, Thanks for your usefull hints!!! I will try that as soon as possible. Regards, Stefanus From: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org To: Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 9:15:39 PM Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Le Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:44:22 -0700 (PDT), Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com a écrit : How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. # setenv UNAME_s PatrickBSD # setenv UNAME_r 1.0-RELEASE # setenv UNAME_v PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 # uname -a PatrickBSD net.lamaiziere.net 1.0-RELEASE PatrickBSD 1.0-RELEASE Thu Oct 28 i386 forked! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 06:56:53AM -0700, Stefan N wrote: Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That is a strange question. I guess the answer is 'Yes' It depends on what you want to be changed in your new version. For example, I would guess that you would take an interest in making your own user environment/interface. Well, that would involve doing stuff from X11 most likely and most probably more of configuration changes than code changes. Then there is a whole long list of things people want added/fixed/ modified on the system. You might want to check that out for ideas. Probably you need to learn a lot more about the existing system before you go to making a custom version. jerry Regards, Stefanus From: Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com To: Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 7:51:50 PM Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? You change the source code and compile How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile. Good luck! -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, April 11, 2011 9:56 am, Stefan N wrote: Hi Christer, As there are many parts of the source code(from bin,cddl,contrib..usr.sbin), which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That would depend. What is your derivative going to do differently than FreeBSD? Which brings in the more general question: Why? What's the purpose of your derivative? Why should people use yours over FreeBSD? Not that there aren't possible good reasons. ;) But answering that will probably tell you what you need to do to create your derivative. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Traiano Welcome traiano.welc...@mtnbusiness.co.za wrote: Hi The FreeBSD from scratch article has a lot of good ideas on how to do this. The article is somewhat dated, however, so your going to have to check that some of the methods are still current, and adapt them to your taste: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/article.html Regards, Traiano From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [ owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] on behalf of Stefan N [ stefanbsd...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be awesome. Thank you in advance. Regards, Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Please, no top posting. Also, thanks for the article. May make an interesting read. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
