Tips and Tricks for the Linux Admin: Roll Your Own
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| 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.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3643936
Worthwhile quote:
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| Why There Are Not More Linux Games
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| We hear it all the time- "Linux will never be a success on the desktop
| until it has way more games." Which contains so many debatable points
| I hardly know where to begin. Here is the best response I ever heard,
| from Keith Lofstrom:
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| ...how does the thrill of winning a video game compare to
| completing a small program, or finding a bug, or building a cabinet,
| or playing music with friends, or some other small task with a defined
| result? Does game playing scratch the same itch?... The reason there
| are so few games for Linux may be because Linux, and creativity in
| general, are much more engaging games. Perhaps if we developed some
| game-like debugging tools, then the young folk spending kilo-hours
| looking for monsters in mazes could be looking for buffer overflows
| instead."
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