Build Tools

Perfectminimal

"Ubuntu’s Minimal ISO gives users an extremely flexible system for building customised Ubuntu systems. It installs a basic CLI environment, to which additional packages can be added. This requires a certain depth of familiarity with the required packages and dependencies.

Perfectminimal is an attempt to automate the process of using the Miminal ISO so that it can be used more easily."

http://andyduffell.com/techblog/?page_id=396
http://andyduffell.com/perfectminimal

Novo Builder

"Welcome to Novo Builder, a Debian GNU/Linux tool for creating your own up to date Ubuntu variants customised to include the programs, themes and customised settings that you want.

No more spending months learning all the tricks involved with this often required process, no more juggling ways to work around bugs and problems, just click, edit and build your very own OS in under one hour (depending on your Internet speeds).

Novo is so simple that a general Linux user will produce results on their very first try, but it's also powerful enough that advanced hackers are able to make it preform tasks in the way they want with full control of the end results.

One of the best features of Novo is how simple it is to share what you create so other can use your ideas in their own projects, your also not limited to how many Projects Novo can store, so if you want to have a large collection of pre-sets that you can run, it's only a matter of picking the one you want to work on or build from the pre-sets list at the top of Novo.

Novo is able to build OS for i386 and amd64 (if your host OS is amd64) and is able to customise which Repositories you use to build from and which packages you include. After you have built your Base OS you can continue to customise it and even run it in a Nested window as the full desktop of your Built OS."

http://www.cyvoc.net/novoweb/index.html

Archiso

"Archiso is a small set of bash scripts that is capable of building fully functional Arch Linux based live CD/DVD and USB images. It is a very generic tool, so it could potentially be used to generate anything from rescue systems, to install disks, to special interest live CD/DVD/USB systems, and who knows what else. Simply put, if it involves Arch on a shiny coaster, it can do it. The heart and soul of Archiso is mkarchiso. All of its options are documented in its usage output, so its direct usage wont be covered here. Instead, this wiki article will act as a guide for rolling your own live mediums in no time!

Due to recent changes, Archiso will now automatically create ISO images that are also USB images! Separate CD/USB targets are therefore no longer necessary."

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso

Debian Live Studio

"Welcome to Debian Live Studio!

* Build your own Debian Live with just a few mouse clicks
* Choice of CD, DVD or USB image media types
* Build and download image from anywhere
* 100% free software"

http://studio.debian.net/
$ git clone git://live.debian.net/git/live-studio.git

Customize an Ubuntu Live CD / USB

"The default ubuntu live CD is nice: it can boot fast, detect the hardware correctly, etc. But I always dreamed of customizing it (eg. add medibuntu support, etc.). The remaster_ubuntu.sh script offers a simple approach to do just this: we start with a working live CD ISO image, change its contents, and create a new live CD image. [...]

This script allows to customize an Ubuntu live CD in 3 simple steps:

1. extract the contents of an ubuntu CD ISO image to your hard drive
2. chroot to the working area containing the extracted CD contents. This allows to do all the /etc configs, aptitude purge/install, etc. to prepare the future ISO image
3. generate a new ISO image containing the (hopefully modified) working area you just prepared"

http://david.decotigny.online.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=Remaste...
http://david.decotigny.online.fr/wiki/upload/RemasterUbuntu/...

Portable Linux

"The bootable USB live Linux creator. Live USB drives -- pen, thumb, SD, MMC or even phones with USB Mass Storage support -- created with this tool let you use the empty disk space on Windows, Linux and Mac, remember the changes you make across reboots, and boot other operating systems. No other tool comes close."

http://rudd-o.com/new-projects/portablelinux

Sugar Creation Kit

"Complete DVD containing all the resources required to create all 3 versions of Sugar-on-a-Stick without requiring Internet access."

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreationKit-123.iso 4.3GB
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreationKit1.2.3-C...

Buildrom

"Buildrom is a tool that can construct a coreboot image (comprising the coreboot loader and payload) from scratch.

Starting from a configuration file, it will download and build all the code necessary to construct the final binary."

http://www.coreboot.org/Buildrom

Moblin Image Creator 2

"Moblin Image Creator 2 (MIC2) is a tool for creating and manipulating Moblin images. MIC2 is a series of utilities that create customized images and provides an easy-to-use development environment for the Moblin distribution. MIC2 is NOT based on MIC 1.0 and is a completely new tool primarily based on Fedora LIVE CD tools and other open source projects
Status

Currently MIC2 is command line only. A GUI version is underway and still in the early stages of development.
Features

MIC2 supports the following features:

* MIC2 has three major utilities
o moblin-image-creator for image creation
o moblin-image-convertoer for image transformation
o moblin-chroot for generating chroot environment from image and vice vera
* MIC2 supports major Linux distributions and can be used on at least the following distributions:
o Fedora (Fedora 9 and above)
o Opensuse (> OpenSUSE 10.3)
o Ubuntu (Ubuntu 8.10. MIC2 is not supported on Ubuntu 8.04 due to incompatible yum versions)
* Supports various types of images:
o Live CD
o Live USB
o Loop images
o KVM images
o VMDK (Vmware)
* Uses the kickstart configuration format for image configuration. Using this simple format, you can specify which software repositories to use, and which packages to install and configure the system, using basic built-in and Moblin specific system configuration directives."

http://moblin.org/projects/moblin-image-creator-2

http://moblin.org/documentation

debirf

"debirf is a system that will create diskless, all-in-ram images (kernel and initramfs) that boot entirely into ram and leave the user in a fully functional Debian system.

debirf has a module architecture that allows users to easily customize the images that they build, using simple shell scripts, to do basically anything the Debian can do. Some included examples "profiles" are:

* minimal: very minimal system with no extras
* rescue: includes a full complement of system repair utilities, including mdadm, lvm2, testdisk, foremost, etc
* xkiosk: run a simple clean GUI web browser for public-access web browsing

Debirf is made publicly available under the GNU General Public License."

http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/debirf

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debirf

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