Several of you have mentioned to me about work that you're doing to remaster Knoppix, or a wish you have to build your very own customized Linux distribution for a specific purpose. For the last three months I've been head-down working on making a public interface for building your own derived Linux product. We've been in beta for a few days, and I feel comfortable extending the beta pool to my close friends in TriLUG (not just those that hang out in IRC).
rBuilder, hosted by rPath will; * Host your project * Provide mailing lists for discussing your project * Host your package repository * Build and host your downloadable Anaconda based bootable and installable ISO images. rBuilder uses Conary technology (which was presented at our June meeting), so getting to know it will be necessary, but a simple howto on creating your own derived distribution is available at http://wiki.conary.com/DerivativeDistroTutorial If you are interested, visit http://www.rpath.org/ and create an account. Then either contact a project owner to get added to their project, or create your own. Join #conary on Freenode, or use the contact information to make suggestions or get help. My own fledgling project is called port25, and aims to be an all in one mail server distribution. A simple project taking existing packages takes an hour or so to build. Projects can be as simple or as complicated as you'd like. Let me know what you think! -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
