Nihilinux

So it’s been a while since I have sat down and written a no kidding “What I want” kind of blog entry.

I’m stuck.  I like the idea of BackTrack(4), but I just don’t like it.  It’s rough around the edges, quite dodgy in driver support and half the time I have to ADD more stuff to it to get something to work.  I want a new distro.  I don’t just want ANY distro either, I want my own.

I’m hunting down different tools that I can stuff into it, I want to create a PPA that will allow me to update all of the “extra” files (hashes, library files, dictionaries, etc) that one creates on the fly so that I can have them at a moment’s notice.

I want to build three or four different flavors too.  My “work” distro that will allow me to do all my PT work, my “social” build that I can wow the folks from the LUG with and recruit new users with, my NAS build for the house, and my server build.  I’d love to stick with a Debian flavor, but I must say the newer Fedora builds are forcing me to look twice at the RedHat strains.

I’m not just a kickass Linux ninja.  I’m a mediocre, so so user, that knows his way around a command line.  I poke holes in security for fun and pay (under contract only, thank you), and am looking to share some of that knowledge with the appropriate folks via a new distro.

I may whip up a few distros based on different strains and get some input on them.  Nihilinux is coming.  That’s what I decided to name the distro a year ago, and come hell or high water (or quite frankly both with the weather being as jacked up as it’s been), I’ll get this sucker out there.

Time to bang on….

Oh and remember this:  Microsoft’s new mantra is “A world without walls”.  Well in a world without walls, who the hell needs Windows?