Suse studio

[Gooberlx2]

Got my invite to Suse studio and I'm so far impressed.It's pretty simple. Nice to be able to add outside repos and additional software not in the official Suse packages.

I made a small utility distro that has support for lvm, dmraid, iscsi, gparted, photorec, ntfsprogs, memtest, partition cloning and a few other similar tools. And then also your other standard things like networking, firefox, text editor, ftp, etc...

Nowhere near as small as puppy (by a factor of about 13), but still cool.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I'd also like to know what people would install in their own utility distro.

 

[Nothinman]

I generally just boot an Ubuntu Live CD because I can install things into the RAM drive after it's booted.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I'd also like to know what people would install in their own utility distro.

To tell you the truth...

Ultimate Boot CD has (almost) everything I need. The only 'problem' is, I (and lots of others) can't figure out how to install it on a bootable thumb drive. It's all about the UBCD GRUB being different than the Linux GRUB, blah, blah, blah.

LoL! I got sooo frustrated trying to make a bootable UBCD flash drive (that works 100% across multiple machines) that I bought an external CD reader so I could work on my Asus 1000HD netty.

Anyway, in the past I've tried this n' that, but to answer your question directly, I wouldn't bother making my own utility distro. Between UBCD and SystemRescueCD, I got all the bases covered!

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I generally just boot an Ubuntu Live CD because I can install things into the RAM drive after it's booted.

i keep it on a flash drive so i wouldnt have to keep doing that.

 

[Industrial]

Never got the damn invite, so I just haven't bothered since. While looking for something that can be modular and then spit out like Suse Studio, Slax has something similar, just not as robust.

But personally, I just like base installs, and add things as I need them to reduce clutter for my home personal use.

 

[ChuaChua]

I got an invite 15 minutes after signing up. Maybe you should try again, I just signed up a week ago.

I am trying to build something that has a realtime kernel and some audio tools like 64 Studio (the deb based audio workstation distro) or Ubuntu studio. Many of the tools/packeges/debs in Ubuntu studio are not available in the Suse's repos, so I may have to compile and build the packages and upload the rpm onto Suse Studio...