Maybe something like http://studio.suse.com/ http://studio.suse.com/ would be useful? It lets you create customised OpenSuSE-based images for deployment/instal

Maybe something like http://studio.suse.com/ http://studio.suse.com/ would be useful? It lets you create customised OpenSuSE-based images for deployment/installation. It would be fairly easy to construct the distro you've got in mind, you'll just get the added benefit of having everything kept up to date for you.