We heavy rely upon the commercial distributions for installing the kernel, shells, cron, gcc, KDE, GNOME and the basic directories and scripts that we collectively call the system.
The main problem with the commercial distributions of GNU/Linux is that they all (based on the last info available to me) include some non-free software. That is a problem we very much want to solve.
Ideally, we should compile the other applications we use regularly, from source.
There is someone who is trying to create a GNU package to help users do this. I am not sure he has the ability to make it technically as good as "Linux" From Scratch, but if some of you want to do a lot of work on it, maybe that is enough resources to compete. Are people interested?