Multiple questions (font rendering, GUI, file system)

[drl]

Hi.

I seems to me that in order to replace something, say "a", with something else, say "b", one should lknow a lot about how "a" works. There is a path set up to help with the current goal,

For this situation, something like the chapter in LFS book http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... e/x/x.html would be a good start. Of course, one probably would need to get through the base part of LFS first before going through BFLS.

Just getting though LFS is clearly a big task, but it should be a good learning experience for anyone who aspires to address a similarly large task such as asked by the OP.

Good luck ... cheers, drl

[thanatos_incarnate]

Others have done something similar to what you want to do already. Maybe you'd like to join forces with them instead of reinventing the wheel?
Examples:

http://pearlinux.fr/
http://elementaryos.org/

[Issyer]

Just getting though LFS is clearly a big task, but it should be a good learning experience for anyone who aspires to address a similarly large task such as asked by the OP.

Good luck ... cheers, drl

No. The guy is asking how to turn Linux into Unix. Why? FreeBSD is a very nice user-friendly distro that starts in console. Once it has configured it looks pretty much like OS X with KDE.