PENGEMBANGAN APLIKASI PERAKIT OTOMATIS DISTRO LINUX BERBASIS WEB

The awareness of some Indonesian society to leaving the bad habbit of

softtware copyright pirating has rapidlly grow and evolve. This situation is

marked with broad using of an open source and free software. Linux as one of the

open source based operating system then becoming popular and excessively used.

At the moment there are hundreds of Linux distribution (known better as

distro) that spreads, as in the national community and also in the international

community. These Distro are made by the developer with various purposes, from

general purpose to special purpose. The diversity of Linux distro is marked by the

difference of package management, kernel type, appearence of customization and

the configurator that being used.

The purpose of this writings is to improve automated Linux distro builder

and development method that can easily be comprehend dan used by users to

assembled their own distro with all application packages dan the customization.

This application can help users (even newbies) to make Linux distro that can

trully fullfil the users wish and needs.

This automated Linux distro builder consist of two part, the DForge

Console (CLI) and DForge Web. The DForge Console (CLI) is developed by

BASH programming language and having the function to processing source code

so it can produced Linux distro with all the ready to use applications. On the other

hand, The DForge Web is developed by PHP programming language and having

the function as an interface that help users to operate the automated Linux distro

builder application and also to make it be accesed on-line.