Benefits
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Save time and money with 45+ ready-to-use solutions: discover and leverage the best free open source software. Deploy in minutes on bare metal, virtual machines, or in the cloud.
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It just works: designed for ease of use, built and pre-tested by a community of experts.
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Backup and migration: smart software saves changes to files, databases and package management to encrypted storage which servers can be automatically restored from.
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Secure and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches.
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100% Open Source: free from expensive and restrictive proprietary licensing. Easy to customize and extend to build new appliances from the closest existing starting point.
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Based on Ubuntu 10.04.1: with Long Term Support until April 2015.
The TurnKey Linux virtual appliance library is licensed under the same terms as Ubuntu. In other words, you are free to download, use, redistribute and modify a virtual appliance for any purpose.
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Easy to use: includes a web management interface, web shell, and simple configuration console (screenshots).
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Lightweight (starting from 150MB): each virtual appliance is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to serve its role with maximum efficiency and security.
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Assured integrity: solutions are built from verfiably unmodified Ubuntu binaries, except for a few custom components for which full source code is available. Releases are cryptographically signed. See the FAQ.
See also
- About TurnKey Linux - an overview of what we do and why we're doing it
- Testimonials - see what people are saying about TurnKey Linux
- TurnKey Core - common base image for all virtual appliances
- TurnKey Hub - on-demand cloud storage and server deployment
- TKLBAM - smart automated backup and migration
- TKLPatch - easy customization SDK