Thinking Of Putting Together My Own Distro

[the empty calorie 0]

Hello everyone...Well, I've been under some deep thought lately...and I want to build my own distro, not only for my personal use, but for others to download as well. I am currently a slackware user, and this distro would largely be based on slackware, but a little more minimalist.Lately, what I've been doing, as I have quite a few old 486 and Pentium-S based computers laying around, is putting together computers for people who either do not have the money to go all out and have a new one built, or people that have pulled enough hair out while using Windows, but are afraid to use anything else. What I've done, is put slackware on each of these systems, and while slackware is a great distro, and I myself cut my teeth on Slackware, after being disappointed with Red Hat's appraoch to Linux (my first distro), other people probably do not want to go that same route. I have learned a lot over years, and I'm stilll learning.But so far, what I've done is given these people a full-featured Linux system, and simplified the system for them, but not in the way Lycoris or SuSE does...First, KDE and GNOME are out. While they do try to replicate (to a degree) Windows, they don't work exactly the same as Windows would, plus, they're a bit cumbersome. Not to mention, GNOME or KDE on a 486 is a good way to put yourself to sleep. the libraries tied to GNOME and KDE, are useful though.People are all given the WindowMaker, as it is fast, and as I have noticed with my own observation, more simple for a novice user to actually use. Most people, have about 5-8 programs they use often (not counting console-based programs), so, I just ask people who I do this for what programs tey commonly used in windows, I've never gotten a list of more than 5 programs, and usually are the same programs. So usually, they get AbiWord, Mozilla, GAIM, LimeWire, and then I'll throw in VICE, for the occasional person that wants to play games, but isn't expecting something like Halo to run on a 486. Aside from that, All the tools a C or Objective-C programmer would ever need are included in every system, as well as for most other languages, (C and Objective-C just being the ones I use) On the side, I give these people the opportunity for 24-hour tech support, and any repairs or upgrades as needed. Of course, for no charge at all. So, essentially, all the service offerings of commercial UNIX, but for free. Why? Simple, I believe everyone has a right to free access to information, no matter what their economic class is.But, as I usually run through Slack's setup, over and over, doing the same thing, it would be nice to have both a system that is uniform (because each system is set up a little different, as I just use what I've committed to memory). Also, it would be nice to just be able to have something that my users can just install themselves, and not have to worry about what all these packages are, and what they do.Anyways, if anyone has any ideas how I could go about this, that would be great.Thank you.