<html><head></head><body>Avoid rebuilding everything yourself if possible. Find a well maintained distro that is close, and use a compatible build infrastructure to rebuild and package or simply patch the parts you need. At work, this is about 200 packages, but I run more modern stuff at home, so that is usually under 30. Add a single package to setup you overriding repo and it's very much like your own distro without the needless work. <div class="gmail_quote">On January 28, 2014 3:14:57 PM EST, Mike <mgoppold5@yahoo.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">Anybody compiled a linux distro before? How difficult? What languages are used? Any web links to the tools/documentation? For example. I'm familiar with Linux from scratch, LFS. nALFS is a small C program which reads an XML profile. "alfs" is a new program which is not done yet. These tools use commands directly from LFS book data. <hr /> linux-user mailing list linux-user@egr.msu.edu <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </pre></blockquote></div> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>