developerWorks: How to Build Your Own Linux Distribution

“Many authors have written about UNIX flavors, delving into the
mysteries of scheduling, memory management, multiprocessing and
threading, file systems, and the interaction between users and the
kernel. The author writing about Linux has an advantage over UNIX
authors: The Linux kernel is unlikely to split into competing
forks–corporate upheavals notwithstanding–because the GNU Public
License (GPL), the existence of a centralized research lab–the
Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) — and Linus Torvalds’
unassailable position make Linux, luckily, a slow-moving
target…”

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