SUSE Studio
| Company type | Web-based software development platform |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software development, Linux distributions |
| Founder | SUSE |
| Defunct | February 15, 2018 |
| Fate | Discontinued and succeeded by SUSE Studio Express |
| Successor | SUSE Studio Express |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Linux distribution customization, software appliance creation, virtual appliance creation |
| Owner | SUSE |
| Parent | SUSE |
SUSE Studio was a web-based Linux software development platform created by SUSE, which allowed users to craft personalized Linux distro, software appliance, or virtual appliance by selecting preferred applications and software packages. Users had the option to build upon either openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise, utilizing pre-built images such as jeOS, minimal server setups, and desktop environments including GNOME and KDE.
This service ceased operations on February 15, 2018.
Image formats and boot options
A variety of image formats and boot configurations were supported by SUSE Studio, such as:
- Live CD/DVD / ISO image
- VMware's VMDK disk image
- VirtualBox
- Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
- Physical disk image
- USB image
- Xen
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Preboot Execution Environment (available only on-premises)
Utilization of SUSE Studio
The SUSE Gallery served as a repository featuring a collection of SUSE Studio-generated images, ready for download and deployment on compatible cloud services. Users with accounts could duplicate and experiment with these images.
Both initiatives connected to the openSUSE Project as well as independent efforts utilized SUSE Gallery as a key platform for distributing virtual machine and disk images.
A notable application included the community-developed ChromeOS variant, a streamlined operating system incorporating the developers’ customized build of Google Chrome, web app shortcuts, and OpenOffice.org, distinct from Google's official "ChromeOS".
Supported desktop environments encompassed:
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- JeOS
- Server
- Exclusively Qt-based
- LXQt
- Exclusively GTK+ based
- GNOME
- Cinnamon
- MATE
- XFCE
- Enlightenment
- GNOME
- Combined Qt and GTK+
- KDE
Termination
On November 9, 2017, the OpenSUSE project announced that SUSE Studio Online would be discontinued as of February 15, 2018. It was succeeded by SUSE Studio Express, which emerged from the integration of SUSE Studio Online with the Open Build Service.
See also
- Open Build Service (previously known as openSUSE Build Service)
- openSUSE Project
- SUSE Linux
- SUSE Studio ImageWriter
- YaST
- ZYpp