[ Thanks to Carla
Schroder for this link. ]
“This month’s tasty installment explores the world of
Roll-Your-Own Linuxes. Why would you want to assemble your own
customized Linux image? Well, why not? For one thing, it’s just
plain fun. For another, despite the fact that there are hundreds of
existing Linux distributions of all shapes and sizes, you might
still find yourself wanting something that doesn’t exist. Which
isn’t all that far-fetched, because even though there are so many
existing distributions to choose from, most of them are derived
from a few common ancestral distributions (Debian, Red Hat,
Slackware, Gentoo), or are variations of each other…”