Sunday, September 28, 2008

Customize your linux ISO

Lot of things are happening in arena like launch of google G1 and apple iPhone. But the thing that caught my attention in particular is one more step towards OS customisation. Well now if I tell you about the kind of services and softwares by which you can customise your linux OS then it wont be something new. But what about installing an OS which will have default wallpaper of your own choice. Yea, stop rubbing your eyes...its true.
With NimbleX it is now possible to build your own Linux distro with your own wallpaper (for eg, your photo), your choice of login name and password, your choice of root password, and your very own boot greetings. You can add your own software, at click of button to a given base Linux distribution. Its like having your own distro. With all things said, real treasure is at http://custom.nimblex.net.
Navigate to custom distribution and from the group of games, office, network, multimedia, system, dirvers etc, select the softwares that you need. Rest unwanted softwares are eliminated. Finally ISO image is created. Each ISO image has its unique number and 12 hrs to download. For those folks who are facing power problems, I recommend they use wget with -c option hence the remaining download is resumed when power is back. This is a live ISO image. You download a fully-customised Live OS with the software you need, rather than depending on what the distro vendor thinks is rights for you. This is what they call "giving power to people"!

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