From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2pSp-0006Bc-V6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:18:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6IDGDIk021846; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:16:13 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6ID8TZR013966 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:08:29 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2006 13:08:28 -0000 Received: from p7223e3d4.np.gmx.net (EHLO sbdev.devel.gmx.net) [212.227.35.114] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 18 Jul 2006 15:08:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #13997268 From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:09:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060718094408.11578.qmail@web37707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060718121426.104990@gmx.net> <200607180835.37263.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> In-Reply-To: <200607180835.37263.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607181509.35250.grimlog@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 3 X-Archives-Salt: dd2a5d8e-03b5-4f2b-8475-cc3506bba49c X-Archives-Hash: cb9b601ea3f31de34f2f58facabd2b8c Hi, Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 14:35 schrieb David Corbin: > Not wanting to hijack the thread from the OP, but this subject interests me > for the following reason. I work on a software system where one customer > has about 10000 systems at about 500 locations. Remote systems are > categorized as one of 3 types/configurations. Automated management of them > is essential, including upgrades, but seldom upgrades "to the latest and > greatest" as stability is very important. Upgrades need to "just work", > and not require manual intervention. Currently, they're all on Windows in > one form or another (ugh!). The systems in question have very limited > capabilities, and the people on site have very limited permissions. > > Other potential customers have similar size systems, and I certainly expect > someone to realize the value of Linux for this. I'd like to have a > solution in my mind when the time comes. > > I've considered the idea of a custom distribution to do this. There is no > doubt in my mind, that any such distribtuion would be based on an existing > one, with tweaks that deal with where updates come from, and what packages > are availble, etc. Gentoo or Debian are the two likely candidates. I'm > not *sure* a customized distribution is appropriate. have a look at rocklinux (http://www.rocklinux.org/wiki/Main_Page) It's a "Distribution Build Kit". I tried it some time ago and was really impressed. > David Hand, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list