Building a distro Publication: Newsforge Date: Jan 03 2005 Reporter: Farrell J. McGovern You download a CD or maybe a diskette image, transfer it to the appropriate media, boot your computer with it, and voilą, you're running Linux. It sounds so simple -- but a great deal of work goes into creating that software. Beginning about two years ago, I spent a year and a half building a desktop-oriented GNU/Linux distribution named MfxLinux, designed to be tightly integrated with Crowell Systems' Medformix medical office management system. Along the way, as with any project a lot of design and implementation decisions had to be made -- some of which worked out better than others. Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Farrell J. McGovern See other articles published by Newsforge Today's headlines Headlines for Jan 03, 2005
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