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Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:44:22PM -0700, Stefan N typed:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more 
> about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on  the process to make a new 
> BSD's derivative/fork  from FreeBSD ?

There is a distinction. eg PC-BSD is a derivative while DragonFlyBSD is a fork.
What do you want?

> How is the method for customizing/remastering FreeBSD ? The most interesting 
> part is that if we could make the new fork of FreeBSD with its own uname. If I 
> could make my own BSD derivative and used StefanBSD as its uname, it would be 
> awesome.

I think you want to read the release(7) manpage. "make release BUILDNAME=StefanBSD"
will get you what you want.