Build your own custom Ubuntu distro
Credit: https://launchpad.net/cubic
art of the beauty of Linux is the freedom of deployment that distributions offer, but when installing it for yourself or others you’ll want to change things. So, why not make your own version, or ‘respin’? That’s what a tool called Cubic is for, and we’re going to look at how you use it to modify the standard Ubuntu installation ISO and bend it to your will in terms of content and aesthetics.
As for the difficulty? If you can install packages from the command line and boot from an ISO in a virtual machine, you should find it easy to get started with Cubic as the defaults were always usable in our experience. We’ll start with the simplest example of just adding some new packages and rebuilding the ISO. This modified ISO can be used as an installer or as a live desktop environment.
Once that’s working, we’ll show you how to customise it further by making LXDE the default desktop environment, customising that environment and adding some PPAs so that it really does feel like its your own personal spin on how Linux should look and work.
Install Cubic
Cubic expects to run under Ubuntu or Linux Mint or one of their derivatives. If you are running a different distribution, you can still use Cubic and follow this tutorial by running Ubuntu in a VM. Begin by installing from PPA. To do this, locate the Cubic page on Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/cubic) and follow the instructions by cutting and pasting the needed commands from that page.
adds the repository to your system. sudo apt update updates the system so PPA. sudo apt install --no-install-recommends cubic mn adds itself. Other than that, the installation should then take care of itself in terms of dependencies.
