How-to make your own Linux distribution with few easy steps!

Have you ever thought of making your own operating system? Actually you need to have great programming skills to build an operating system! Is it right? Actually it is half correct… now you can build your own customized Linux distribution based on SUSE Linux in few easy steps!

Thanks to SUSE now we can build our own customized system online and not even that we can also test it online! Pretty cool isn’t it?

Benefits you will get :

• After making your own customized system you can use it rather than installing the normal system and after that spending a lot of time installing your software (customizing it).
• Next benefit is… you can do this and show others that you know something!

Enough talking…. lets see how to do this….

1) First of all you need an invitation to access SUSE studio. Don’t worry you can get an invitation very easily! Go to http://susestudio.com/ and click on “Create account / Sign in” link at the top right corner.

2) In the next page enter your e-mail address in the second text field which says “Your email:” and click on “Request Invitation”

Request invitation

3) Next you got to answer some questions…..

Survey

4) After completing the above steps, the next step is about patience! Now you have to wait until they mail you the invitation. Don’t worry i got my invitation in less than an hour! (about 45 to 30 mins).

5) You will get an invitation as shown below, click on the link provided in that mail.

The invitation

6) After that login with your mail account (gmail, yahoo), your Novell account or with your OpenID account (Learn about Open ID)

7) Fill in the details on the next page and click on “Continue”

8) Now your all set up… lets start building your OS! In the next page choose the settings of your OS and give it a name (If your a novice user you can go with Just enough OS)

Choose a base template

9) In the next page click on “Switch to the Software tab to continue” link… ok now this page some knowledge (if you don’t know anything just skip this), in this step we can add the software we need to our system. You can choose them from the given list or you can upload the rpm.

Software

10) Next click on the “Personalise look and feel” button on the top left corner as shown in the figure.

Personalize look and feel

11) Now add your logo, and the wallpapers you need to use with your OS.

12) Next click on the “General” tab as shown below:

General settings

13) In this page you can set general settings like the language, keyboard settings or the region (or you can set them to be taken during the installation). Then add a user or better to change the existing “tux”.

14) Next go to the “Startup” menu and set up the license and the default run-level. (If you don’t have a license use the GNU General Public License )

15) Next, the “Desktop” tab. Use this to set up an automatically login user, so that you don’t need to give the user-name and password, every-time the system starts. (or you can leave at its default setting). If you need to set a program to start automatically when the system starts, you can set it up from this page.

16) Now use this “Overlay files” tab to ad files or folders to your OS. (such as file for the desktop, images, photos)

17) Ok, now your all done… now go to the “Build”. In here give your OS a version number and select which format you need it (Live CD, USB image, VMware image), finally click on “Build” to start building your system.

Building...

Great, now you have your own Linux version… now you can test it online or download it and start using it!