About TurnKey GNU/Linux | TurnKey GNU/Linux

Turnkey GNU/Linux is a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.

TurnKey is inspired by a belief in the democratizing power of free software, like science, to promote the progress of a free & humane society. Without the freedom to freely distribute, tinker and learn from free software the Internet as we know it would not exist. Free software is the silent, often invisible power behind the greatest technological marvel of our era.

Debian 13, the largest GNU/Linux distribution, includes more than 69,830 packages in its software repositories. The free software movement has collectively created a treasure trove of software that anyone is free to use, distribute, modify and learn from.

TurnKey exists to make that freedom useful. We turn open source components into complete systems that work immediately, remain open to inspection and can be adapted as needs change. AI-assisted tools make that path practical for more people, but the result still belongs to the person running it. That's our vision. We invite you to join us.

Discovering, configuring and testing combinations of components can be notoriously challenging, time consuming and inefficient, especially if everyone keeps reinventing the wheel by rolling their own solutions.

To maximize the amount of good we can do with the resources we have we've created a simple yet powerful Linux distribution development toolkit that makes it easy to create pre-assembled solutions that can be deployed in just a few minutes from a CD image running on bare metal, a virtual appliance running on a virtual appliance, or a cloud instance controlled from your browser.

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