On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Liraz Siri <liraz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This sounds great. If I wind up with a big machine to test it on I'll tell you how it goes. Are you familiar with this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/linux/+bug/245779 It's the reason my latest db servers are running Centos 5.2, sadly. By the time I'd found the suggested workaround of setting a boot option of NO_HZ=y I was already migrated off ubuntu for db servers. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
