After a discussion with a collegue, we both felt their is a need to provide a good custom Ubuntu installation, focussed on Java development. Since I’m very interested in actually creating something, I started to google. I’ve installed Ubuntu a couple of times over, it’s frustrating reinstalling all those applications again and again.
My eye came fairly quickly on Remastersys, a backup utility for Ubuntu (and others). A small tool that can make a distributable iso of an existing installation. I’m not a Linux Guru (I’m below average), so this is exactly the kind of software I was looking for.
Anyway, been playing for a couple of hours with it, made a distributable installation of a vm. First one made my Ubuntu crash, but without free diskspace I could only blame myself. Especially with a large warning screen advising me beforehand! Anyway, second time went like a charm. It took about 25min, which was surely doable. It comes with a clean UI. One click and the distro is being created. Lovely simple!
Next thing on my list is a presentation about Java Software Testing (more about this later), after that I’m definitely going to create my own Linux distribution containing essentials like:
- Java 6 and Java 5
- maven 2
- eclipse, with some basic plugins like svn, checkstyle, Spring IDE and such. Might even be the new SpringSource Tool Suite, if it’s final by then.
- eis4linux
- Firefox with excellent plugins like Mouse Gestures, Download Statusbar, Googlepedia, Firebug, Web Developer and such.
- FileZilla
- more if I find the time.
More to come!
Andries
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