Sounding like conquering another world, an impossible thing....Absolutely wrong if you think so. For Novice Linux users like me probably it must be daunting task. But there is a solution for that too. Linux From Scratch(LFS). Of course its not at all a program/course which is meant to create the OS like the way OS developed from decades...Again Its not just putting the DVD of a magazine and just installing some XYZ default packages which u even dont know ...Then what exactly this LFS.
LFS gives u the feasibility of designing your own os. I mean the packages,programs, etc u need for ur environment. of course u can change and tweak the source to ur needs.
Simply LFS is to use the existing host Linux system's development tools to develop ur own distro using the source tar balls of different pacakges and programs that are downloaded or created by our own.
Also, for the novice users like me, it will give good understanding of how a Linux system works, how it ticks with the hardware..A good learning exercise.
After getting good idea of ur environment and then the applications u need just try to build ur own Linux distro using the existing Linux Host system's development tools. For getting help on this, just try to search LFS in Google, The Great. And also plz visit http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/.
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