How to Create Your Own Customized Ubuntu Live CD

I had started tackling something like this for Ubuntu ISOs a while ago, I had major problems keeping livecd isos < 700mb when adding anything. DVDs, fine, but there wasn't much room on the cd image to play with, unless you removed a bunch of stuff.

I haven't really looked at how Reconstructor is doing things, but from what I can tell, they're not really making sure that the iso is burnable. I can't say I blame them :)

I'm still thinking of creating a "roll your own linux distro" web service, but nowadays I'm thinking of basing it off of Arch, and providing some sane defaults. Basing off of a more minimal distro allows for more customization, and to be frank I feel that Ubuntu is a bit bloated these days anyhow.

I have a proof-of-concept ubuntu iso generator that takes a list of packages to add/remove and makes a bootable live/install cd out of them somewhere... Hmm, I may just make this my "official" weekends project for now.