What is ROCK

From RockWiki

If you ask if ROCK is for you then the answer is probably 'no'. If you ask if ROCK is the tool you need, the answer is 'maybe'.

For now, please look at this information courtesy of Tobias 'th' Hintze:

20:19 < th> matto: the point is that rock is not a distribution. it's
a tool to build distributions on your own.
20:19 < th> matto: and then there is crystal - a full featured
reference distribution

ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit, a group of tools to build GNU/Linux distributions from source. It comes with a set of predefined distributions like the Crystal ROCK desktop target or the small, bootable bootdisk target, and allows users to easily customize the build process and create new targets.

The distributions that ROCK Linux generates are sometimes called ROCK Linux themselves, although the term ROCK Linux based distribution is more appropriate.

In a way ROCK Linux is a tool for managing OS solutions. It comes with the package managers mine and bize, the rocket tool for updates over network, and the ability to build (emerge) single packages into an existing Linux OS. For system administrators, a setup tool (stone) and reasonable System V style init scripts as well as other configuration files are provided.

The latest version of ROCK Linux is always available from the Subversion repository. From time to time, the core developers release well-tested snapshots of the Subversion repository, together with pre-built bootdisk and Crystal distributions.