Archive for December, 2008
So in my quest to find an Ubuntu based backtrack I stumbled across Nubuntu. I tried it out on my Eee PC and once I got wifi working it seemed to show promise. Based on FluxBox and with the first implementation of Cairo that I have seen. It seems to have most of the features of backtrack but it’s hard to tell with FluxBox. I have been thinking of contributing to a project like this and depending on how busy I am this semester I just might get involved.
So I have been looking around at starting to package with Ubuntu. I have been going back and forth as to whether to try to submit packages to Ubuntu directly or setup my own repository. As the packages will likely be security related I am leaning towards submitting to Ubuntu. I don’t know why the metasploit packages are not in Ubuntu. Part of me says that it is lack of interest and they just need someone to step up and make the packages and part of me says it may be for political/legal reasons. I can’t even find deb packages for most of the stuff or an external repository. I haven’t been able to contact anyone on IRC either.
So I have been reading up on packaging. It seems like there are like 8 different ways of making packages. I guess I’m just gonna have to try them all.
So I love Ubuntu Linux. I love Backtrack. I especially love some of the additions made to it recently. But the lack of apt makes it hard for me to use it to the full extent that I can. I understand that there are things like fasttrack but imagine if you could have access to the ubuntu repository.
I have made minor remixes of Ubuntu before but I haven’t done a lot of major work. Things that come to mind are adding things for which there aren’t deb packages, ripping out things that are not needed and making it boot faster. If I even get something running how would I share it and set up repositories.
I guess my question is how does one start a distribution?