Recently Novell has unveiled a sneak preview of the alpha release of SUSE Studio at VMworld. In a nutshell, SUSE Studio is an innovative way to enable both standardization and customization of a Linux distribution. With SUSE Studio, you can customize and build your own personal distribution in as many ways you could possibly think off.

As per Novell’s blog:

SUSE Studio is a new, innovative Web-based service to enable (independent software vendors), developers, and the community to quickly and easily “mass customize” Linux. SUSE Studio is the first tool to enable users to create fully supported, customized variants of SUSE Linux Enterprise and OpenSUSE, add additional software, and test the resulting image–all in one simple and easy-to-use interface

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQQiibbtzY

SUSE Studio is currently undergoing alpha testing, and will be released as public beta later this year. To learn more about SUSE Studio, and to sign up for the alpha, go here.

You can also checkout the Official SUSE Studio’s Documentation page.