[tbelldesignco]

MacOS .... nice! I've heard it's quite a cool OS. I do not own a Mac, but my purposes are mostly development and I'd be the last one to pay $100 for a Mac Dev license let alone the fact that I can't afford it. 

CentOS is awesome for productions, big companies use it too. They've gone the stream way but I'm sure that'll be cool too, I'm yet to try it out myself. 

For your Linux project from scratch, I really appreciate it and book my seat for one of the early users of your OS once it's complete. Good luck!

macOS is great and I hear what you are saying with the developer licensing cost, but you can always use Xcode for free so you can learn the language then either release your app outside of the AppStore or work on getting a contract with a company who will help publish and market your product while you can focus on the code. I am actually thinking about figuring out a way to get something like that setup, to help new developers get an app to market. Having the TBDC Developer Network or something like that.

As for the LFS, I would be stoked to have you guys try it! My first iteration will be a stripped down bash line like we all primarily use with our VPSs then perhaps for the second iteration of bugs and fixes, fork the project so I can learn more about GTK and Vala.