Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:50:25 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Stefan N <stefanbsdfan@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. Message-ID: <20110412115025.GA8624@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <25997.86221.qm@web113704.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <25997.86221.qm@web113704.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:44:22PM -0700, Stefan N typed: > Hi All, > > > My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more > about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new > BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? There is a distinction. eg PC-BSD is a derivative while DragonFlyBSD is a fork. What do you want? > How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting > part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I > could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be > awesome. I think you want to read the release(7) manpage. "make release BUILDNAME=StefanBSD" will get you what you want.
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