It still sounds like you're doing a lot of extra work for little gain vs making a Debian remix or something. I realize writing your own can be more fun, and seem easier, than establishing detailed knowledge of an existing system -- but all of the things you mention could be done quite easily starting from a working Debian distro.
You could fork into a complete distro, like Ubuntu, or just choose a few (core) packages and add some patches.
Either way, I wish your project the best of luck -- any project that tries to revert the asymmetric split of the Internet in "end-users"/consumers and "services" is welcome in my book :-)
You could fork into a complete distro, like Ubuntu, or just choose a few (core) packages and add some patches.
Either way, I wish your project the best of luck -- any project that tries to revert the asymmetric split of the Internet in "end-users"/consumers and "services" is welcome in my book :-)