SUSE studio is a web front-end to customize and build your own personal distribution in as many ways you could possibly think off. There are other similar services and applications that helps you make custom distribution but none of them are as extensive in customization options as SUSEstudio or as easy.

When you login to your account you are given six template to choose from:

After you select a standard template you can give it a name and choose to add or remove any packages you want to. When you customize packages you get real-time updates on the size of the ISO and number of packages you are selecting out of the hundreds of packages that are available for you to choose from.

Almost every aspect of the ISO is customizable, from the background of the boot splash, custom logo, adding users/password, running custom scripts during boot, memory size for virtual machine. It took me 5 minutes to make a custom ISO with minimum changes and another 10 minutes to build the ISO.

Real life application of this service has so much potential that its amazing, not because it is unique (which its not), but how simple and fast it is to build your own custom Linux distribution.

1) Customizing ISO

2) Building ISO

3) Test driving custom ISO online before downloading it

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