Hi peoples. I'm pretty close to finishing a 5.3.1 heavily remastered featuring 17 extra kernels besides the original 2.6.24.4. HAL working OK, all kernels working with aufs and cloop and ALSA 1.0.17 (hm, ALSA except 2.6.14 ), lots of packages added, lots of -dev packages also added, looks better anyway. Electronics stuff added, like some 8 different gEDA versions (compiled) and Xcircuit and lots of others, also Firefox 2 and 3, VLC 0.9.8 (compiled), peazip and p7zip, mplayer compiled and more.

In this thread I created I intend to put everything I know and experimented: how to remaster a 5.3.1 starting from the original ISO, details about new kernel compilation, details and tricks about the scripts in knoppix (5.3.1) and where to change things if you want to make things work etc. etc. etc.

My personal approach to remastering (at least for now) is to make it a direct competitor and efficient replacement of Windblows. So I will focus especially on a remaster with all the X features required for an easy to use graphical operating system.

As I go on, I will probably edit this first post here and insert some table of contents, which will take you directly to what you're looking for

Also I think it would be best if nobody else would post here, not for a while anyway, until I get the whole thing started properly. Well, of course this is at your choice, it's not a request but rather a preference.

I'm starting with kernels, by giving example scripts and scripts that you can test directly under the Live Knoppix 5.3.1 DVD running on a machine with enough RAM for experimenting directly on the ramdisk.


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