My Own Linux Distro: The Beginning

Here's a project I've been thinking about for a good long time, and which I've finally decided to get under way in public: I'd like to try and build my own custom Linux distribution.

There's a whole slew of reasons I want to do this.  Obviously, I'd like to learn more about Linux from the inside out, which is never a bad thing.  I also want to get a flavor for the issues involved in working with Linux on that level -- why certain decisions are made about things, what the consequences are for making such decisions, and so on.  And finally, it sounds like a heck of a lot of fun -- the kind of tinkering that I could really sink my teeth into.

The first thing I want to nail down are the design goals for this distribution: