____/ Rex Ballard on Tuesday 03 July 2007 11:55 : \____
> On Jul 3, 6:11 am, Hadron Quark <hadronqu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Rex Ballard <rex.ball...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > On Jul 1, 6:18 pm, "jim" <j...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> I think I saw something about a Linux package that
>> >> allows you to basically
>> >> take a snapshot of your system and distribute it as a distro.
>>
>> >> Anybody got any info on that?
>>
>> > Most applications can be packaged as either .rpm (Red Hat Package
>> > Manager), or .deb (Debian Package) or "tarball".
>>
>> *snip pages of waffle*
Man, you really need to get back on those pills the doctor subscribed for you.
>> Did you even read his question?
>
> Yes. He wanted to create his own "distro".
>
> Most of the supported distributions have the option to create a
> snapshot of the installed software, so that a configuration can be
> "cloned". But that isn't a new "Distro".
>
> Creating a snapshot is easy, but it's still the parent distro.
>
> Creating a new Linux distribution is much more involved, and I wanted
> to make sure that he understood what was involved in making a new
> distribution.
It was an interesting and education post, as usual.
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