Because you've expressed an interest in "creating a distro" and preferably not maintaining/distributing an iso
here's an example of an implementation method that you may (or may not) wish to consider:
http://antix.freeforums.org/modified-an ... t6129.html
https://github.com/KERNELULTRAS/LegacyIce-antiX
thats cool, thank you. i do recall you mentioning that. ive actually never tried refracta snapshot, though ive thought about it a few times. to be honest i never thought id create a distro (or anything like a distro) until i started playing with the refractahrpup idea-- really just to find out if it were possible. still working on that answer

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014
topic: "a plea: in antix v14R final... please omit (shim) systemd"
http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5237
this was around the time (late 2014) i started having issues with jessie (it wasnt stable yet, so i thought-- "eh, weird") and i started looking into it. so im not new to the party, except the antix party. after that i started reading debian mailing lists voraciously, trying to figure out what was going on with debian. i wasnt impressed. i started looking at solutions, including bsd. not my cuppa, hoped for something better. started following devuan once there was something to follow, months later i was happy using devuan.
i think its reasonable to say that it was the same time, the same party, but probably on different floors. ive been to parties that were on more than one floor, so yknow...
Apologies for stating my perception so pointedly that it came across as an attack on your character.
I'm usually opinionated and, yep, sometimes sharp-tongued... but I'm not into drama.
You'll find no quarrel with me; I'm here to exchange ideas.
good-- the first impression you made was "here to exchanged ideas" and thats exactly what my interest in you is.
for what its worth, im NOT just looking to exchange debian related ideas. i want to know as much as i can about distros in general, and i dont want to do all the work myself. therefore a community interested in multiple distros a la distrowatch (but perhaps more in love with facts than appearances... still dw has had a good year imo.)
In response (granted, it's only been a few days since then) no "thanks" nor "thanks, but no thanks"
just a change of subject and shifted attention, jabberjawing here in this thread.
sorry, i will probably always be chatty. if you ever feel disrespected as a result i hope youll feel free to pm me, as thats not the intent at all. on some days im very focused, but ive been working my arse off this year to be social and im starting to run into limits on it. the result is that im still interested in almost everything i mention, though i appear less interested or willing to learn.
some of it is laziness, some of it is stubbornness, but most of it is just about communication. on that there are good days and other days.
plus this wasnt a challenge, i was just being defensive:
though your claims so far are no more backed up than mine
~~ antix/MX ARE USING A DERIVED, FEATURE-EXPANDED, VERSION OF THE CLEVER
LIVEBOOT SNAPSHOT UTILITY CREATED BY fsmithred. (The point of contrast here
is that devuan is not yet supporting live / persistence / frugal / install / snapshot)
this is the kind of stuff i ALWAYS want to know about. and yeah, its weird how little focus devuan has on live. i simply put it to "well aitor and fsr are doing fine with that, perhaps unofficial-devuan-live will become official-devuan-live"
id be in favor of that, with my main concern being how much ends up on fsrs shoulders as a result.
From where I sit, their momentum has exceeded, continues to exceed that of devuan.
If requested, I'll post a bulleted list of the achievements/differences I've noticed.
Really though, I had hoped you'd check/compare for yourself.
i never have "realtime" to check things anymore. im so freaking busy, and i LOVE looking things up but theres 100000 things i wanted to look up this year, and i only got to a few 1000 of them. if you post something i probably want to look at it-- its difficult to promise to these days without lying, and id rather be honest.
it helps when theres no pressure. if someone can just tell me, thats the fastest way to get my attention. im sad to say that sometimes you may even have to tell me twice.
im having several life crises these days, i just cant be on the ball every single day. and i never was every single day, but it used to be better.
cheers. i hope youll stick around, because youre interesting and informative-- two of my favorite things. opinionated isnt all bad, either.