On 20 Jun 07:21, Krishna Birth wrote:

I would be grateful for answers to this survey, please number your answers for relating them to the questions below.

Or use standard mailing practice of giving answers below questions like a real human?

This ( Linux User and Dev. Magazine #101 Build Your Own Distro http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/magazine-issues/linux-user-developer-issue-101-is... ) has choices for building your own distro.

For the ones that interested me it says:

susestudio.com is easy, polished, good documentation and web-based though it's Suse only

instalinux.com has choice and is web-based though not polished interface

uck.sourceforge.net is easy though Ubuntu only, not customisable look/feel and start from scratch approach to changes

geekconnection.org/remastersys is very flexible and copies environment though Debian/Ubuntu only, not in Ubuntu yet and needs separate installation

linuxfromscratch.org is flexible though requires manual steps

revisor.fedoraunity.org is easy and offers possibilities though Fedora only

1. What tool is best for a non-techie to build linux distro?

If one is not a techie, one should use one of the (hundreds of) premade distributions, recommendations would be Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora. All of which have a large user base and come with security updates. For a true non-techie, I'd suggest going the ubuntu route, but not using the new desktop environment.

2. Could the other distros logos / firmware gui be changed on them?

"Firmware GUI"?!

3. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which is best for non-techie?

4. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which is best for the

distro customisation/flexibility (similar to question 2)?

5. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which is the quickest to

produce the distro for the non-techie?

6. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which is best for

consultant/expert to produce distro?

7. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which is easiest for

non-techie to upgrade over time?

8. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which offer to the

non-techie easiest live and installable distro?

9. If a consultant/expert was to use susestudio, remastersys or

revisor, how much time would be spent to remove all fonts and put 2 fonts perhaps bitmap one font also, the distro logo and a live, installable, bootable media and downloadable distro?

10. If a non-techie was to use susestudio, remastersys or revisor,

how much time would be spent to remove all fonts and put 2 fonts, the distro logo and a live, installable, bootable media and downloadable distro?

11. From susestudio, remastersys and revisor which offers the most

quality community help?

12. Do any offer paid options where their team creates the distro for

you for a fixed fee?

You do realise that if you use a home-brewed distribution, you're narrowing your support choices, and you'll probably end up in a setup that has some "interesting" licence combinations, right?

Is there any reason that you're looking to "make" your own distribution, or is it just that it looked like a good idea at the time? There's very little need to, and unless you're planning on installing a *lot* of machines, then using one of already available distributions is a better idea.

And if you are installing a lot of machines, then puppet + PXE boot of debian/ubuntu and using a preseed file is undoubtedly going to be a better long term bet.

Just my 2p,