I found out that VirtualBox 1.6 (finally) supports Solaris: Earlier attempts were an exercise in futilism (that’s not a word, but I like the sound of it). I did install it on the Windows PC (that’s the one I haven’t touched for ages) and, hurrah (or huzzah). Thank Sun for that (after all, they bought up VirtualBox, in March or something. I was a kind of disappointed after I saw the ‘Java Desktop’ pop-up: Gnome. It’s fairly well organized though.
Via Metafilter, I was redirected to ‘OpenSourceFood’ (original Metafilter thread), which is a site where people share recipes under the Creative Commons license. I find it silly to have recipes ‘open sourced’: many generations of people already shared recipes for free. Probably related is this entry at xsamplex (the videosite ‘I’mCooked’, which has everything about cooking too, or something).
Last week, I briefly checked out Nimblex, which is a site that allows you to make custom Linux distributions, via a (nifty) Javascript interface. If I’m correct, it’s all based on Fedora and it might fit what you’re looking for. For more finegrained (and complex) custom distributions, you’ll probably want to look at Linux from Scratch, or even better, Debian from Scratch.