Give the Gift of a Custom Linux Distro

When reading this, all I can think is:

Family members, friends, and co-workers might, at first, give you some strange looks when they take a look at a “YOUR-SANDWHICH” written on one side with a sharpie. This is where you explain that you made a “custom sandwhich” just for them.

How do they try it out? Simple. I recommend that you build your custom sandwhich using your own ingredients, similar to a regular sandwhich . That way, people can eat it, and it won’t chmod whatever is already in the fridge. It’s a great way for people to try out other sandwhiches whenever they want.

Well, I personally dislike saying that a custom distro is a "new operating system just for you", but, hey, if Russia [1], China [2] (FreeBSD this time), and North Korea [3] can do it, why not you? (Probably also India and Iran, but I couldn't find solid proof their efforts are Unix-based.)

[1]: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/23/1450224

[2]: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/chinas-secure-os-kylin-a-...

[3]: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9165758/N._Korea_deve...

I've never understood why people regard a disc image that installs a custom set of packages from existing repos belonging to an existing distro as an entirely new distro. Does this mean I'm authoring a new distro every time I write a Debian preseed or a RH kickstart?

Just wait until the cam.ly team learns about login screen customization and desktop themes--it'll be like a new disto^3!