On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM, John <jharitos@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been running ubuntu for awhile and I've compiled my own programs but
> I've never made my own package (deb file). I tried it once before on Fedora
> (rpm) years ago and it seemed to complicated. Can someone point me in the
> right direction on how to build my own packages?
>
>
> Freegeek rolled their own distro from Debian years ago, before Ubuntu made
it a useless pursuit.

In the old days before Backtrack, Knoppix STD was remastrered with specific
drivers, etc (because it was distributed without network drivers as a way to
keep script kiddie abuse down), which is similar:

Here's some good references:

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7246  Knoppix


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