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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Which UNIX OS is going to give me the most versatility? I Want Total Control Post 302974391 by metacogitans on Monday 30th of May 2016 03:45:29 AM
Old 05-30-2016
Edit: Woah, why did my double post just turn into embedded quotes telling everyone about the word of tapatalk?
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Originally Posted by hicksd8
Well if you really want to "tweak the guts of the O/S" I guess you need to start from source code; is that what you mean?

There are a number of Linux distros that allow you to download the whole source code and then compile if you've got CPU cycles to burn and a few hours to do it in. I know that Ubuntu will allow that. Also Gentoo provides kernel tailoring letting you build the O/S you want.

Understanding all this can be an issue if you haven't done it before. There's a project called Linux From Scratch (LFS) which provides source code but also a book in both digital and hardcopy which describes the internals of how the kernel is built. That might be a good place to start.
I guess my first question is, why is the source code taking up that much memory when it's just the source code for the kernel? Everything else that is running is converted into instructions for hardware by the kernel, correct?
So what do you mean by 'the whole source code', and why would compiling it take hours? 'What' about an operating system's source code would take hours to compile?

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Originally Posted by TheOuterLinux
Creating your own distro with OpenSUSE would give you the most control because finding specific packages (RPM) is much easier. However, Xubuntu would give you less headaches and because it's Ubuntu based, you'd have better supported packages to work with and something that doesn't ask too much from your computer. Most copy and paste to terminal guides are based on Ubuntu these days.

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Thanks for the insight; what about Xubuntu will 'give less headaches' though? Does it have barriers for certain things that I might as well just have a different operating system to get past?
Having a tidy-looking GUI with all my regularly used doodads on it is nice for something aesthetically pleasing or if I want to showcase how cool my desktop looks, but if that's its only perk I'd rather just turn 'desktop' into a text file with the names of my favorite processes listed in it for me to look at in it in case I forgot what they were.
I plan on keeping things tidily organized in folders, and the GUI is going to be there for me just so I can rearrange the size of the boxes things are displayed as. But I'm not looking for a completely gimp GUI either
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