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'''Turnkey Linux''' is an ] project developing a family of free, ]-based ]s which are optimized for ease of use in server-type usage scenarios.<ref name="TurnKeySoftwareAppliances">{{cite web | title = Software Appliance | work = TurnKey Linux | url = http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances | accessdate = March 23, 2009 }}</ref>
'''Turnkey Linux''' is an ] project developing a family of free, ]-based ]s which are optimized for ease of use in server-type usage scenarios.<ref name="TurnKeySoftwareAppliances">{{cite web | title = Software Appliance | work = TurnKey Linux | url = http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances | accessdate = March 23, 2009 }}</ref>
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Turnkey Linux is an open source project developing a family of free, Ubuntu-based software appliances which are optimized for ease of use in server-type usage scenarios.
Appliances are packaged as a single universal image (an installable Live CD) capable of supporting installations on both physical and virtual machines, including VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, and KVM. Installation of an appliance to a virtual machine creates a virtual appliance.
The project's slogan is "everything that can be easy, should be easy".
History
Founded by engineers of an Israeli startup, the project was conceived in mid-2008 as a community oriented open source project that would focus on helping users intelligently piece together turnkey solutions from open source components in the largest Linux distributions. According to one of TurnKey Linux's co-founders, the project was in part inspired by a desire to provide open source alternatives to proprietary appliance vendors, that would be aligned with user interests and could engage the community.
In September 2008, the project released three prototype appliances for Drupal, Joomla and LAMP, based on the Ubuntu 8.04.1 build. Two months later, a usability focused batch of appliances was released in response to user feedback. In this release a new configuration console written for this purpose was
added along with a web administration interface.
In the following months more beta appliances were released, and by the end of February, 2009 the range included Ruby on Rails, MediaWiki and Django. In early March, 2009, TurnKey Linux released a new batch of appliances, 12 in total, re-engineered on top of a new TurnKey Core base.
Design
The TurnKey Linux appliances are a series of "stripped down" versions of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. To this they add the TurnKey Core, which includes all the common features for the project's appliances, including:
di-live: a live installer, derived from debian-installer which is unique to the project. The installer is designed to facilitate installation of an appliance to a host machine faster (for example, in about 60 seconds) than conventional package based installers.
A configuration console: developed from scratch in Python for the project to allow users to perform basic configuration tasks (for example, networking configuration, reboots)
An automatic mechanism that installs security patches on a daily basis.
Web administration interface based on Webmin which includes a selection of generically useful add-on control and configuration modules.
The TurnKey Core has a footprint of approximately 100 MB, and is available as a separate download. Application software is installed on top of the Core, which typically increases the size of an appliance up to approximately 150 MB. By downloading and installing the appliance package to the hardrive, it is intended by the developers that administrators would gain an easy method of setting up a dedicated server.
TurnKey Linux web management interface
Live CD boot loader
Configuration console - advanced menu
Web management interface - Firewall
