April 18, 2009

SUSE Studio

There are tons and tons of Linux distributions these days such as Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD...
If you're a power user or an IT specialist you surely have tried a Linux distro even if it was just for a few days. If you're a regular user, I'm sure you've eared or saw "Linux" written in some website and went to Google to search for it and after some time you ended up taking the conclusion that it was just another OS like Windows or MAC OS.

Anyway, if you're like me you've probably tried around 20 distros and found out that you like some very much but you think that they weren't "made for you".
Make you own? No way! Yes, I'm a programmer, but I'm not skilled enough to play with the Kernel it self.

So, I found out about SUSE Studio ( SUSE is an enterprise class Linux distro ), a website where you can create a derivative of SUSE it self that fits your tastes.
You can add and remove packages, change the GUI, pre-install third party applications... and after you're happy with it you can compile it to an .iso image and save it to a CD, DVD or a flashstick to easily install it on a computer.

The website is still in Beta but you can sign up and try your luck. You'll probably only get the invite in a few months since many peaple have already registred but, it doesn't hurt to try!