Do users release customized Ubuntu distros?
i.e., their own version based upon an official release shared with the public?
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Yes, some people do - check out which distros are based on which....
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?o...=Active#simple |
Yes. Almost every distro is based on someone's customizing a pre-existing distro and then releasing it. Check out the Linux Family Tree.
Even Slackware, the oldest distro still actively maintained (by just a few months), was based on earlier work, in Slackware's case, Softlanding Linux System aka SLS. |
In general one would need to specify the differences, how the new distro is different from the original one. In some cases these changes are not really useful, in some other cases the new distro will be really successful. Don't forget maintaining/releasing a distro means continuous activity - we have a lot of "abandoned" distros too.
Anyway yes, they were created and will be created in the future too. |
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Also rather than doing a full distro, you can do a slightly modified respin. That kind of customization is not limited to GNU/Linux or even Linux in general. For a while I made a custom release of the OpenBSD operating system for some laboratories I was maintaining. If you're looking for encouragement, I'd say go for it. |
Ok, I should clarify.
I do not mean a packaged distro creating a new family using the Ubuntu respositories, what we can all see, but less extreme options. I mean someone taking Ubuntu & tweaking it a little & still calling it Ubuntu ('My Version, or 'Version with a Twist'), then release it to the public, TurboC's slightly modified respin. |
If respins exist, where can we find them?
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in that case you might want a feature package only (probably), not a full distro
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I want a better version of Ubuntu, & it's not Mint.
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However, you can make your own modifications and roll them into a Live image which seems to be what your original question is about. |
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I guess we should hear more about the context in which these change will deployed. |
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Has anyone squashed Xubuntu? That's what I want. https://askubuntu.com/questions/2757...n-grub-options |
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