TurnKey Core

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.

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
  • ISO images: Generic installable Live CD. Installs anywhere.
  • Virtual Machine images: Optimized for virtualized hardware. Pre-installed and ready to run.
  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI): best launched via the TurnKey Hub. Alternatively, experts can use the listing of AMI codes to launch through other interfaces (e.g., Amazon CLI tools)
• 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