Custom distro

[Michal Kolodziejczyk-2]

Hello,
I am new to the T2 project. I am yet going to compile a linux
distribution with T2, but now I have some questions:

- is the default target (desktop) usable for end user as a linux distro?
Or which target should I wstart with?
- are there any succesful user-friendly linux distributions built with
T2? I know of puppylinux, but it seems there is still a lot of manual
work necessary
- is it possible to speed up compile time (by omitting unneeded locales
  during glibc compilation)?
- it it possible to shrink the cd size  (by omitting unneeded locales)?

Thanks,
miko



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[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On 14.04.2008, at 19:43, Michal Kolodziejczyk wrote:

> Hello,
> I am new to the T2 project. I am yet going to compile a linux  
> distribution with T2, but now I have some questions:
>
> - is the default target (desktop) usable for end user as a linux  
> distro? Or which target should I wstart with?

The desktop installs more like a FreeBSD / Debian - so maybe not so  
great for aunt Tilly end-users.

But that can be completely adapted to your enwished feature-set - it's  
completely under your control.

> - are there any succesful user-friendly linux distributions built  
> with T2? I know of puppylinux, but it seems there is still a lot of  
> manual work necessary

The Archivista target that comes with T2 under the GPL has a complete  
custom installer "script" that installs from the livecd. It is  
completely modeled after Archivista design spec, for the stand alone  
appliance solution.

It even includes support for a alternating system partition to always  
make sure the last installed system stays intact and takes over the  
Archivista configuration (CUPS, Exim, Mysql replication etc. pp) from  
another installation.

There are a lot embedded devices in the field that are very intuitive,  
however I guess most indeed come without installer ...

> - is it possible to speed up compile time (by omitting unneeded  
> locales  during glibc compilation)?

Yes, but you via a colorful config option - you need to add some codes  
lines to modify the glibc build in your target directory.

> - it it possible to shrink the cd size  (by omitting unneeded  
> locales)?


Sure, right now the code already supports arbitrary file filtering  
with widlcards, you could probably filter locales away with that (I  
think some archivista flavor also did this for all non-english system  
tool locales, not sure if that hit t2/trunk yet though - would have to  
take a look).

--
   René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
   http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name


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