TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library

TurnKey Core

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Common Base for All Appliances

The common base system on top of which all TurnKey Linux appliances are built. It includes custom automated backup and migration software,  a web management interface, automatic daily security updates, live installer, configuration console, and all other common features. Take a look at some screenshots.

Current version: 11.3 (changelog)Legacy versions

Features:

  • Base distribution: Ubuntu 10.04.1 with Long Term Support until April 2015
  • Build formats: deploys on bare metal, virtual machines (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox, KVM, Xen) and in the cloud
  • Smart backups (TKLBAM): automated backup and restore, with system migration capabilities
  • Secure and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches
  • Dynamic DNS (hubdns): associates your IP with a custom domain or the free *.tklapp.com domain
  • Logical Volume Management (LVM): instead of installing to a fixed size partition, a Logical Volume is first created by default, and this may later be expanded, even across multiple physical devices
  • AJAX web shell (shellinabox) - secure command line access from any web browser
  • Web management interface (Webmin)
    • Listens on port 12321 (uses SSL)
    • Mac OS X themed
    • Network modules
      • Firewall configuration (with example configuration)
      • Network configuration
    • System modules
      • Backup and migration (TKLBAM)
      • Configure time, date and timezone
      • Configure users and groups
      • Manage software packages
      • Change passwords
      • System logs
    • Tool modules
      • Text editor
      • Shell commands
      • Simple file upload/download
      • File manager (needs support for Java in browser)
      • Custom commands
    • Hardware modules
      • Partitions on local disks
      • Logical volume management
  • Simple configuration console (confconsole)
    • Displays basic usage information
    • Configure networking
  • First boot initialization
    • Prompt user for passwords
    • Regenerates SSL and SSH cryptographic keys
    • Installs latest security updates, unless user chooses to defer this for later
    • uses GeoIP to automatically configure closest APT package archive for maximum network performance
  • Command line power tools
    • smart, programmable bash shell completion: helps you get more done with fewer keystrokes.
    • support for $HOME/.bashrc.d shell hooks
    • persistent environment variables (see $HOME/.bashrc.d/penv):

penv-set pydoc /usr/share/doc/python2.6/html
exit

# later...
cd $pydoc

  • Automatic time synchronization with NTP