Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.

Christer Solskogen christer.solskogen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 11:52:11 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Stefan N <stefanbsdfan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
>

You change the source code and compile

> 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.

The method is really simple, actually. You change the source code and compile.
Good luck!

-- 
chs


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