SUSE Studio
![]() The SUSE Studio page for editing an appliance | |
Type of site | Operating system build service |
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Dissolved | February 15, 2018 |
Owner | Novell Corporation |
URL | studioexpress |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional (required to build and download appliances) |
Current status | Offline |
Written in | HTML and Flash |
SUSE Studio was an
Users could choose between
.The SUSE Studio service was shut down on February 15, 2018.
Image formats and booting options
SUSE Studio supports the following image formats and booting options:
- ISO image
- VMDK (VMware disk image)
- VirtualBox
- VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)[1]
- [Hard] disk image
- USB image
- Xen
- KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
- OVF (Open Virtualization Format)
- AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Preboot Execution Environment (onsite version only)
SUSE Studio in use
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On SUSE Gallery Archived 2018-04-22 at the Wayback Machine one can find a catalog of the images created in SUSE Studio. These are available for download as well as immediate deployment on the supported cloud platforms. Upon logging in, cloning and test-driving images is possible.
A number of projects, both related to the
SUSE Studio is what powered the fan-made ChromeOS, which was a semi-stripped-down system loaded with the developers' version of Google Chrome, Google web application links, and OpenOffice.org (not to be confused with Google's "ChromeOS").[4]
The many desktop environments supported (not limited to):
- brltty
- JeOS
- Server
- Qt only
- LXQt
- GTK+ only
- GNOME
- Cinnamon
- MATE
- XFCE
- Enlightenment
- GNOME
- Qt and GTK+ integrated
- KDE
Shutdown
On November 9, 2017, Novell announced that they would be shutting down SUSE Studio Online on February 15, 2018. SUSE Studio Express will replace the service, because of previous merging with Open Build Service and SUSE Studio Online.
See also
- Open Build Service (formerly openSUSE Build Service)
- openSUSE Project
- SUSE Linux
- SUSE Studio ImageWriter
- YaST
- ZYpp
References
- ^ Hyper-V appliances are GO!, SUSE Studio, February 6, 2012, archived from the original on May 8, 2012, retrieved May 7, 2012
- ^ openSUSE Medical uses Studio as main outlet
- ^ Browserbox uses Studio as main outlet, archived from the original on 2010-09-14
- ^ Use SuSE Studio to Build a Linux OS from Scratch, LifeHacker, September 29, 2009, retrieved 2011-01-07