Please advise about creating a linux distro, i have gone mad on searching to find any info on that but in vain, currently we are exploring the possibilities of linux from scratch but i know that isn't going anywhere we want.
The distro is gonna be used as a senior project for our team in the faculty of IT - MUST (Misr University for Science and Technology), 6th of October.
I am getting "promises" of converting the whole uni to use it if we "manage" to do it, as they will be designing a UMS (University Management System) using Java that will be deployed on linux (Our distro hopefully).

As u c it's gonna be all Free software on Free system, so kindly help with a comment to give us a kick-start in the right direction (please be carefull with the kicks as we have developed very bad "back"-aches recently from college professors kicks, Ouch).

thanks and sorry for any typos