A software appliance is a preconfigured combination of an application (for example, a Web server) and its configuration, and includes an operating system (for example, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server). All these parts are integrated into a single image and can be deployed on industry hardware or on a virtual environment.

End User License Agreement. For software that needs a special license (usually non-open source) which the user has to agree to before installing.

KIWI provides a complete operating system image solution. It can create images for Linux supported hardware platforms or for virtualization systems.

Files which are created, removed, or modified in your testdrive are considered as overlay files. These files can be added later as a supplement to your appliance.

Remote or local storage place which provides RPM packages and other infrastructure to be used in SUSE Studio.

A template is a base system provided by SUSE Studio. This base system is derived by the user and extended.