My Own Linux Distro: The Choices

“After my first post about creating my own Linux distribution as
a learning project, I received a lot of extremely positive letters
from readers, many of whom had suggestions about particular
distributions to use as the core for the project. Here’s some of
what they had to say.

“My first distribution of choice, Linux from Scratch, met with a
good deal of approval. Not everyone agreed that it would be the
easiest way to go (one fellow cited Rock Linux as a contrasting
offering, which does look like it’s worth investigating), but I did
want to make this into a fairly advanced exercise if I could. If it
meant an initially steep climb, I didn’t mind–my goal wasn’t to
have a bootable distribution on the first day…”

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