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How is this different / better than live-build?
A couple of things it supports that live build does not support.
- overlays (basically configuration modules)
- templating
- python hooks
Is there anything that makes it worth to switch from debian live-config scripts ?
- templating support
- configuration in yaml files
- it still fully supports live-build support, so it should be super easy to migrate. You just put the live build files in os/lb or in the lb folder of an overlay.
default.nix in this repo doesn’t seems to work since it doesn’t include poetry and many other requirements.
This sounds like something I'd be very interested in, though I'm not sure what it is. It'd be great if I could easily customize Debian (i3, vim, zsh, chrome, etc.) and distribute / share it with others. But I'm not sure what this does and cannot tell even after reading the first few sections of the README.
See also https://www.refracta.org/docs/readme.refractasnapshot.txt
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 t…
Hey just noticed all the activity here. I’m the author of Linux factory. I just opened up issues on GitHub so more discussion can happen there.
Alternatives that support more than just Debian: https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS (Based on buildroot) https://www.yoctoproject.org/
these are for embedded boards though
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I use arch btw. It’s better because we the arch users say so. I’m an arch user btw.
That's not arguing in good faith. Here's a simple example: you want hyprland, patheon and interception-caps2esc on ubuntu? Good luck! On arch, it's just a pacman away. You don't like how arch is perceived as elitist? Use manjaro. Ubuntu had its place in the last century, but with most development happening on git you need a rolling release.
There are a ton of Debian system build tools out there and people keep making new ones: https://wiki.debian.org/SystemBuildTools
The feeling you get from it is great! Plus, this is often how new things (or ways to do things) are discovered.