seek referrals on distro howtos

[Claude Jones]

I've been looking, and there are lots of pages on how to create a distro. 
Sometimes, it's hard to separate the competent from the wannabes. Do any of 
you who have actually created distros have some reading suggestions for a 
beginner? I'm interested in creating a distro that is oriented to graphics 
artists/media professionals - that comes up with the cutting edge packages 
that are being developed, installed and basically configured, and provides 
easy methods for keeping those packages updated as they develop. I'm thinking 
of packages like Cinelerra, Jahshaka, Cinepaint, etc, when I say cutting 
edge, though I'm also open to any suggestions on this front. Packages like 
Inkscape, and the Gimp would be fairly simple to include, I presume.  I'm 
welcome to being told, also, that this is too ambitious, but if you could 
give reasons for why this is so, that would be great.  
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA