“Congratulations, its a baby [operating system]!” : The Basic Tenants of
Creating Your Own Operating System
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| Thanks to the beauty of the open source, it is now within the grasp of anyone
| with the right know how to create a custom operation system based on open
| source code. Basically,what this essentially means, is that you can make your
| own Linux, or BSD, or Hurd based operating system (your own distribution)!
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http://kdubois.net/?p=31
Windows and Mac users just don't think that way. They were raised to understand
they they /rent/ software that they cannot change.
CrunchBang Linux 7.10.01 Release Notes
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| A few weeks ago I decided that it might be fun to attempt to remaster Ubuntu.
| I've been using Ubuntu for a number of years and while I think the
| distribution is great, my set-up does differ a fair amount from the standard
| Ubuntu installation. So, remastering Ubuntu into a distribution that more
| closely matches my set-up seemed like a logical thing to do.
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http://crunchbang.org/archives/2008/01/22/crunchbang-linux-7-dot-10-dot-01-release-notes/
Related:
KlikIt-Linux 0.1-7B
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| KlikIt Linux is based on Kubuntu 7.04, taking advantages of many of its best
| features, and then adds its own touches such as many multimedia options that
| are either built in or available with a couple of clicks from the desktop,
| making it fun to interact with just like the KlikIt community.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/254874/
The Little Engine That Could
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| I was as upset about this deal as many others were. I even had a phone call
| with Kevin Carmony regarding the matter.
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| Well, at one point on the forums, Kevin Carmony told some upset members that
| if they did not like the way things were, they can start their own distro and
| see how it goes. So, former Freespire Leadership Board member Chris Medico
| assembled a team, of which I was honored to be asked to be a part of, which
| he lovingly calls Freedom Force. Within weeks, this new project, based on
| Kubuntu, had an Alpha. The project is called KlikIt Linux.
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| We decided community is as important, if not more important, than technology.
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| Anyway, within a short time our community grew to 50, then 100, then more. It
| has not grown by us marketing. It has been organic word of mouth in Microsoft
| Software forums, Xandros Foums, Linspire, PCLOS, Mint, Kubuntu, etc. The word
| keeps spreading, people like it, and they like the community.
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http://www.marcelgagne.com/node/529
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