SUSE Studio is an online

ONLINE

ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....

 Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 image creation tool

Tool

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 by Novell. Users can develop their own Linux OS, software appliance

Software appliance

A software appliance is a software application that might be combined with just enough operating system for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware or in a virtual machine....

 or virtual appliance

Virtual appliance

A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a virtualization platform ....

, mainly choosing which applications

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

 and packages they want on their "custom" Linux and how it looks. In addition, they can choose between openSUSE

OpenSUSE

openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE...

, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while...

 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop , formerly introduced as Novell Linux Desktop, is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for desktops. New major versions are released at an interval of 24–36 months, while minor versions are released every 9–12...

 bases, GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 and KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

 desktops

Desktop metaphor

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, and an abundance of other features.
The user can create a fully functional system with Firefox, 3D graphics, and whatever apps he or she can find installed.
SUSE Studio is what powered the fan-made "Chrome OS", which was a semi-stripped-down system

System

System is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole....

 loaded with the developers' version of Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

, Google

Google

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 web application

Web application

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 links

Hyperlink

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, and OpenOffice.

Image Formats and Booting Options

SUSE Studio supports the following image formats / booting

Booting

In computing, booting is a process that begins when a user turns on a computer system and prepares the computer to perform its normal operations. On modern computers, this typically involves loading and starting an operating system. The boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the...

 options:

• Live CD/DVD
  Live CD
  A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive...
  
  
• Preload ISO
• VMware image / VMDK
  VMDK
  The VMDK file format is a type of virtual appliance developed for VMware products. The format is open/documented.-Products that use the format:* VMware Workstation* VMware Player* VMware Server* VMware Fusion...
  
  
• VirtualBox
  VirtualBox
  Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products...
  
  
• Hard disk
  Hard disk
  A hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the...
  
   / USB image
  USB image
  A USB image is a way to boot a computer from a USB flash drive, or another USB device. The operating system loads from the USB device to make it usable. Much like a Live CD, a USB image runs off of the USB device the whole time....
  
  
• Xen
  Xen
  Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently....
  
  
• KVM
  Kernel-based Virtual Machine
  Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel. KVM supports native virtualization on processors with hardware virtualization extensions....
  
  
• OVF
• Amazon EC2 (AMI)
  Amazon Machine Image
  An Amazon Machine Image is a special type of virtual appliance which is used to instantiate a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud...
  
  
• PXEBoot (Onsite version only)

See also

• openSUSE Project
  OpenSUSE Project
  The openSUSE Project is a community project to produce, improve and document the openSUSE Linux distribution and make it the "world's best Linux distribution".-Project:The openSUSE Project is a community program sponsored by Novell, AMD and IP Exchange...
  
  
• SUSE Linux distributions
  SUSE Linux distributions
  SUSE Linux is a computer operating system. It is built on top of the open source Linux kernel and is distributed with system and application software from other open source projects. SUSE Linux is of German origin and mainly developed in Europe. The first version appeared in early 1994, making...
  
  
• YaST
• ZYpp
  ZYpp
  ZYpp is a package management engine that powers Linux applications like YaST, Zypper and the openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise implementation of PackageKit. Unlike other common package managers, it provides a powerful satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies and a convenient package...
  
  
• openSUSE Build Service
  OpenSUSE Build Service
  The Open Build Service is an open and complete distribution development platform designed to encourage developers to compile packages for multiple Linux distributions including openSUSE, Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian...
  
  

External links

• SUSE Studio official website