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More specialty Linuxes to the rescue

Tuesday, February 24 2009 @ 01:58 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay.

Linux provides free and open access to the source for the OS itself. Developers are free to tailor a custom Linux -- even down to the level of the kernel itself. You can trim away drivers, services, and other OS components unneeded by the task for which the custom distribution will be targeted.
In addition, because Linux thrives on a universe of free software, developers can be choosy about the pre-installed packages they supply with their custom system. One can easily construct a user environment tuned to a specific application.
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