SUSE Studio® is a Web application for building and testing appliances in a Web browser. It supports the creation of virtual appliances and live systems based on SUSE Linux operating systems. The publicly hosted version is available at http://susestudio.com.
This manual introduces SUSE Studio. It helps you perform key tasks like creating, testing, and deploying appliances. The manual is intended mainly for end users who want to make efficient use of SUSE Studio in everyday life.
Several feedback channels are available:
To report bugs for a product component, or to submit enhancement requests, please use https://bugzilla.novell.com/. For documentation bugs, submit a bug against the component for the respective product.
If you are new to Bugzilla, you might find the following articles helpful:
We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation included with this product. Use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page in the online documentation or go to http://www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your comments there.
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:
/etc/passwd: directory names and filenames
placeholder: replace
placeholder with the actual value
PATH: the environment variable PATH
ls, --help: commands, options, and
parameters
user: users or groups
Alt, Alt+F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as on a keyboard
, +: menu items, buttons
Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a chapter in another manual.
This book is written in Novdoc, a subset of DocBook (see
http://www.docbook.org). The XML source files were
validated by xmllint, processed by
xsltproc, and converted into XSL-FO using a customized
version of Norman Walsh's stylesheets. The final PDF is formatted through
XEP from RenderX. The open source tools and the
environment used to build this manual are available in the package
susedoc that is shipped with
SUSE Studio.
With a lot of voluntary commitment, the developers of Linux cooperate on a global scale to promote the development of Linux. We thank them for their efforts—this distribution would not exist without them. Furthermore, we thank Frank Zappa and Pawar. Special thanks, of course, goes to Linus Torvalds.
Have a lot of fun!
Your SUSE Team
Additional information about SUSE Studio can be found in the following links:
Information about appliances and the SUSE Appliance Program.
The portal site about SUSE Studio with a tour, Howtos, and information for developers.