Welcome to fossmyanmar/BYOD! This repository is a curated collection of resources for anyone interested in the "Bring Your Own Distro" philosophy – specifically focusing on customizing Linux Desktop Managers (DM), Window Managers (WM), and creating personalized Linux ISOs.
The aim is to gather useful links, tools, and guides to help you craft a Linux environment perfectly tailored to your needs.
Resources for customizing the look, feel, and functionality of your Linux desktop environment.
A highly configurable, stacking window manager.
- Setups & Base Configs:
- Theme Collections:
Inspiration and examples for managing your personal configuration files.
- owl4ce/dotfiles
- siduck/dotfiles (Openbox specific)
- Amitabha37377/Awful-DOTS (topbar_dock)
- Amitabha37377/Awful-DOTS (main)
- star.is-a.dev/projects/awm (Awesome WM based)
- elenapan/dotfiles
- AlphaTechnolog/dotfiles (Openbox specific)
Utilities to help you manage, version control, and deploy your dotfiles.
- Tech Intern - Dotfile Guide
- Dotfiles.github.io - Utilities
- Chezmoi - Comparison Table (Compares various dotfile managers)
- Yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
A fast and easy-to-use status bar.
- Themes:
A simple panel/taskbar developed for Openbox, but also works with other WMs.
A window switcher, run dialog, ssh-launcher and dmenu replacement.
A standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to create custom widgets.
- Core Project:
- Example Widgets/Themes:
- adi1090x/widgets (Often used with Eww or Conky)
Graphical boot animation and logger.
- Themes:
- Web Greeter Concept:
- Web Greeter Page (Vercel App) (A concept for a web-based LightDM greeter)
Tools and guides for creating your own customized Linux distribution ISO images.
A GUI wizard to create a customized Live ISO image for Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions.
- Cubic Wiki - Start Page: PJ-Singh-001/Cubic/wiki/Start-Page
- Ask Ubuntu - Customizing with Cubic: How I can customize the Ubuntu live ISO installer using Cubic
Tools for creating a basic Debian/Ubuntu system from scratch, often used as a base for highly customized distros.
- mvallim/live-custom-ubuntu-from-scratch
- Anduin2017/AnduinOS (Example of a custom OS build)
These guides might be older but can still offer valuable insights.
- Ubuntu Community Help:
- Blog Post (Portuguese):
Automating Ubuntu installations using cloud-init (autoinstall) or preseed files.
- Generators & Examples:
- Guides & Tutorials:
Bookmarks file is available BYOD.html
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Firefox: Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Import Bookmarks from HTML
Found a broken link or have a suggestion for a new resource? Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request! Your contributions are welcome to make this fossmyanmar/BYOD collection even better.
This collection of bookmarks is provided as-is. Please refer to the individual licenses of the linked projects and resources.