seek referrals on distro howtos

[Ben Stringer]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 08:30 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> I've been looking, and there are lots of pages on how to create a distro. 
> Sometimes, it's hard to separate the competent from the wannabes. Do any of 
> you who have actually created distros have some reading suggestions for a 
> beginner? I'm interested in creating a distro that is oriented to graphics 
> artists/media professionals - that comes up with the cutting edge packages 
> that are being developed, installed and basically configured, and provides 
> easy methods for keeping those packages updated as they develop. I'm thinking 
> of packages like Cinelerra, Jahshaka, Cinepaint, etc, when I say cutting 
> edge, though I'm also open to any suggestions on this front. Packages like 
> Inkscape, and the Gimp would be fairly simple to include, I presume.  I'm 
> welcome to being told, also, that this is too ambitious, but if you could 
> give reasons for why this is so, that would be great.  

Hi Claude,

You may want to look at this list first. There may be a good distro
already that meets your goals.

http://www.livecdlist.com/index.php?pick=All&sort=Purpose&sm=0

I've heard good things about dyne:bolic

http://www.dynebolic.org/

Cheers, Ben

> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
>