[clue] Impressions on 11.04?

[CP Constantine]

On 4/29/2011 7:39 PM, Torren Beitler wrote:
> As far as I know, you can't code and compile the OS itself in ubuntu.
>

Yep, you can indeed do all of this

In fact, thanks to the wonders of Ubuntu's Debian base, you can apt-get 
the source, modify the /debian/rules file for the downloaded source 
(which is basically the makefile when all said and done) and flag which 
patches to autoapply, you can then manually compile, or use 'apt-get -b 
source' to autobuild a .deb from your source.

The make-kpkg tool will let you do the same thing. and there's nothing 
stopping you from just ignoring all supplied tools, and doing everything 
the old-school way, completely ignoring packages completely if you so wish.

(There, that wasn't so hard was it?)