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SUSE Studio — Linux Customization For the Masses
apokryphos writes "Novell just released the first alpha of SUSE Studio (screencast), which provides an easy way to customize your own Linux distribution with the software and configuration you want. Among other things, you can spin a Live CD, a USB image, or create a VMware image. It builds upon the already established openSUSE Build Service and KIWI imaging system."
Come on, it's not ready for prime time. The driver problem is too much.
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For very small values of masses.
...here.
susestudio.com
"Your browser is not officially supported We have detected that the browser you are using, Microsoft Internet Explorer, is not officially supported. Currently, for the alpha of SUSE Studio, we only support Firefox 2 and 3, and Safari 3." Way to go SUSE, not supporting the most used web browser on earth.
Actually, the screencast is at http://studio.suse.com/, not suse.studio.com, which is an adfarm that just struck gold.
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Opera and Konqueror (KDE-4.2, Ultimate (ubuntu Intrepid)) work fine. Elinks displays the page and the links work, but, without flash, there is no vidie.
Linux customization for the masses?
"Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me--the free man and woman of this country--as 'the masses.'"
--Ronald Reagan, in his speech on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, October 27, 1964.
The free users of free software shouldn't be called "the masses" either.
OpenSuSE/SLES/SLED are our preferred distros around here for our POS and ERP systems just because it was a fluke that it was the first distro to install correctly on the test/development machines without having to hunt down drivers or getting a kernel panic. But this will make creating a disc image for our Point of Sales systems extremely easy and I'm glad to see it.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
This would be a great tool if it works out. Hopefully it will be GPL and can be adapted to other distros. Very forward thinking on SUSE's part.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Finally someone actually using OpenID as a consumer.
Must be a cool skateboard video up on digg or something. Haven't seen the Novel hate group yet.
In TFA, Matthew Richards is quoted as saying, "We didn't achieve mass customization of cars until Ford thought up the assembly line." No, Mr. Richards, that's not what Ford's assembly line achieved. It achieved mass production of essentially identical cars. That's why, for many years, you could buy a Ford in any color you wanted, as long as you wanted black. Similarly, you can use this software to produce any custom Linux you want, as long as you want it based on Open SuSe.
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So can I get a Gnome install without Gnibbles?
Isn't this old news? I have been carrying Ubuntu on my key chain USB drive for about 6 months.
"We didn't achieve mass customization of cars until Ford thought up the assembly line. We need the equivalent of the assembly line in the (operating system) world:"
Err, no we don't, at least not Dell/Apple's definition of 'customization' where you have two or three choices of hardrive upgrade options, each increment of cost would buy your the retail part outright.
Worse, ford and his mass production gave us any colour so long as it's black.
This is rather the opposite and a Good Thing. The better analogy would have been the custom car scene from the 1950s onwards, where you can pay for a customized build, rather than do all the work yourself. This might get frowns from those who like object to paying someone do it.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
You can't have mass "customization" if you don't have mass production.
Haven't I seen this before - yes, over on Fedora, they have a "spins" functionality, making this an evolutionary, not revolutionary improvement.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins
Ken
This looks awesome, guess it also lets people easily create distributions derived from OpenSUSE; my-own-SUSE with splash to match :-)
Judging from the screencast, this looks just like what Fedora is trying to do with the revisor application. I wonder how fast it is, though. In the screencast, it looked like the image was created almost instantly, while revisor can take hours to complete, and it is so full of bugs and so hard to make working images with that it is IMHO nearly unusable. I have spent days trying to make revisor and then pungi create working images with a custom kickstart file, but eventually had to go over to doing everything by hand instead. I really hope SuSe deliver on their promises on this, it will make life so much simpler for people working with embedded systems and kiosk systems.
...that's, what Gentoo Linux is for.
You can't get any more customization, without doing Linux from scratch.
And why in the world would I want to install an RPM-based package manager, when I can have a Ports-based one?
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Between artificially inflated hardware costs and DRM lock-in, Linux is light-years ahead.
Once again, consumer choice wins.
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What DRM lock-in?
Don't worry, I won't be expecting an answer related at all to actual DRM included in the OSes listed above. I know that'd be too much work for you...and you'd likely explode when you finally realized the only DRM in those OSes is support for playback...no lock-in.
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They have worked on increased interoperability of their version of Open Office.
That's an important difference. They are adapting their version of Open Office to run VB macros in a VB compatibility mode rather than translating the VB to the native code. So what? It means that Open Office will always be second best at running VB macros ( of course ) and fewer people will be encouraged to write Open Office native macros - which is what Microsoft want to avoid.
Client compatibility with Microsoft servers and languages is second best for Microsoft, but still a lot better than having new projects developed natively on a rival platform.
Novell can put out all the statements they like. Words are cheap. Novell is doing what Microsoft wants them to do.
According to the website, Konqueror (3.5.10) isn't supported. One gets bumped to a page informing one of this advent and you are further instructed to use Safari or Firefox (2 or 3). Way to go Novell/SUSE! Gotta love a website promoting a product that doesn't support the primary webbrowser provide by said product maker! Sheesh!