What does it take to make a distro?

[halfvolle melk]

Just wondering.
You could get some source here and there, compile it and stick it into a server, voila, distro. But that's prolly not the case for any mature distro.

Fixing bugs and sending them upstream so the updates don't have to be fixed again for the same bug. Ie coding.

Integrating software. Are apps modified per distro for integration? What does a developer do other than select apps to make a complete system?

[bjweeks]

Try LFS and see.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

By the way have fun!

[halfvolle melk]

LFS, working on that. Got the entire toolchain working. But my testing system that I use for it is about to die. I'm waiting for some hardware upgrades to play with it further. Thanks for the suggestion though.
But still, LFS tells you take this source, compile it put it in there etc. Let me refrase my question: what does it take to make Ubuntu?

[rfruth]

Ubunu rocks and there are some big names behind it

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth?highlight=%28s%29%7C%28mark%29

[briancurtin]

Ubunu rocks and there are some big names behind it

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth?highlight=%28s%29%7C%28mark%29
...but what does that tell him about how to create a distro?