Novell punts tools to make software appliances
Since earlier this year, commercial Linux distributor Novell has been working to get a set of online tools together, which it hopes will make it the force behind virtual machine server appliances. It also has a matching partner program that will see key Linux software vendors deploy appliances based on customized - yet supported - instances of Novell's SUSE Linux.
Today, the online tool, called SUSE Studio, and the related SUSE appliance program go into production, and we'll find out if people really want to build appliances on SUSE Linux.
The key feature of the SUSE Studio tool, at least as far as independent software vendors are concerned, is the supportability assessment module, which is currently only in beta. As developers pick and choose different parts of the SUSE stacks to create an OS image, it checks for dependencies and then tells you if the custom SUSE instance you have created is supportable by Novell's tech support organisation. If it is, then the ISV can redistribute the Linux and know that Novell will back it up and support it.
SUSE Studio takes as its foundation a so-called Just Enough Operating System, or JEOS, variant of SUSE Linux that is skinnied way down, and then you can add functionality to it there from the SUSE stack.
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