Have Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman ever actually built their own distro at all? I seem to recall Linus saying he didn't have time for that, and he'd rather leave that task to somebody else who cares about it more.
More to the point: there are hundreds upon hundreds of different distros out there - it's not even that hard to make your own. Technically, anybody who compiles the kernel specifically for their own system and chooses a base of software around their kernel could call that a "distribution" and put it on the internet for anybody to use with a small amount of effort. You don't even need to know how to code anything to do that - you just have to know some command-line stuff.
That's kind of what I like about this - a game that "takes out the hard stuff" and just gives an overview of building a distro and what goes into it. If this helps educate people about the process and get more people learning about computers, I think that's great.
Ok fine, as long as in the game you have to start referring to Linux as GNU/Linux whenever RMS is within ear shot lest you lose a day to one of his insufferable speeches on terminology.
More to the point: there are hundreds upon hundreds of different distros out there - it's not even that hard to make your own. Technically, anybody who compiles the kernel specifically for their own system and chooses a base of software around their kernel could call that a "distribution" and put it on the internet for anybody to use with a small amount of effort. You don't even need to know how to code anything to do that - you just have to know some command-line stuff.
That's kind of what I like about this - a game that "takes out the hard stuff" and just gives an overview of building a distro and what goes into it. If this helps educate people about the process and get more people learning about computers, I think that's great.