Hi everyone, I am one of the developers for TurnKey Linux, a new opensource project that develops a family of lightweight installable live CDs optimized for various server-type tasks including LAMP, Ruby on Rails, Django, Joomla, Drupal, MediaWiki, and others: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances This type of pre-integrated, ready-to-use system is typically called a software appliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_appliance Our project's goal is to build software appliances that are easy to use, easy to deploy and free. In a nutshell, we believe everything that can be easy, should be easy! We just released TurnKey PostgreSQL, an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD of the PostgreSQL relational database engine that can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines. It features a Mac OS X-themed Web management interface and a Python configuration and installation console. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS, and is designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, automatically updated, turn-key operating system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to run PostgreSQL with maximum usability, efficiency, and security. Key features: * auto-updated daily with latest security patches * MacOS X themed web management interface * easy to use configuration console (written from scratch in Python) * packaged as an installable Live CD that runs on real machines and VMs * minimal footprint (152MB) - includes only minimum required components * based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/postgresql Check it out and tell us what you think! Cheers, Liraz -- Website: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~liraz-siri -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
