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This project is a product of 4 years of work, mostly learning the Debian ecosystem. I started with Ubuntu, I’ve tried Arch, I’ve tried Gentoo, but nothing beats the ease of Debian when it comes to custom distributions. Debian was almost built to fork. Their ecosystem is amazing. Their live build tool is super.

I built Linux Factory so everyone else can build custom Debian distributions easily without having to know the live-build tool. It’s really easy to configure and get started. Please give me feedback on how I can make it better.

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Why not just use mkosi? There are so many tools that do this already and mkosi is cross distro and can do super modern stuff like use UKIs.

always when somebody says "why not use use X?" i always need to thing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

sometimes the answer is just, why not? - it's not forbidden to learn something or try a different approach.

1. Having N tools that are 95% the same is just frustrating for everyone trying to find a tool that will be maintained.

2. Contributing to a project that almost does what you want leads to better tools that are also maintained so they can be relied upon to build new things.

3. Instead of building the Nth version of something, you could be working on something novel.

Theres no value from building something new if you can just learn how something that exists works and contribute to it instead. NIH syndrome is actively harmful to open source.

I hate this reddit style comment of linking a barely related thread, not to make any sort of point, but to just try to show you are in the know of some in joke.

Since I've been looking at mkosi for building Debian images recently, I would love a section which clarifies/differentiates features (and goals/non-goals) of linux factory and mkosi.

Thanks for the tool! Found a docu bug: the link in the "Grub" section does not point to the grub overlay :)

Thanks for tool. Will there be GUIed version in future ? Like Suse had previously ?

> Like Suse had previously ?

Do you mean SUSE Studio? That functionality has been integrated into the openSUSE Build Service at https://build.opensuse.org/ .

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