Announcing TurnKey Linux 12.0: 100+ ready-to-use solutions

Huge round of applause and a toast to the best collection of dead easy appliances the world has ever seen!

Well done guys, love your work!

I managed to track this down to a bug in the mysql deserialization code that happens under just the right (or rather wrong) circumstances. A fix has been committed and will be pushed out to the archive soon. If you don't get the fix automatically just do this next week:

apt-get update
apt-get install tklbam

We're discussing whether or not it would be a good idea to push this out as an automatic update to save users the trouble.

I was just looking at the blog yesterday hoping there would be an update, so this is very welcome news!

Unfortunately, upon creating a fresh LAMP Stack on the hub (which worked great) and restoring a backup to it through Webmin, I get an error on mysql database restore and the backup restore halts before putting my actual site files on the server :/

This makes me nervous about the current web server's backups as well, in fact I think I may try a clone of the server and see if that works.

Any ideas? Here's the end of the log with the error:

table: website/wp_posts 
ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 20646: Duplicate entry '1' for key 'PRIMARY' 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "/usr/bin/tklbam-restore", line 385, in <module> 
main() 
File "/usr/bin/tklbam-restore", line 360, in main 
restore.database() 
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/restore.py", line 124, in database 
limits=self.limits.db, callback=mysql.cb_print()) 
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/mysql.py", line 449, in restore 
fs2mysql(mysql(), myfs, **kws) 
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/mysql.py", line 412, in fs2mysql 
MyFS_Reader(myfs, limits, skip_extended_insert, add_drop_database).tofile(fh, callback) 
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/mysql.py", line 406, in tofile 
database.tofile(fh, callback) 
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/mysql.py", line 279, in tofile 
table.tofile(fh) 
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/mysql.py", line 345, in tofile 
fh.write(chunk) 
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe  

Strangely enough, if I run a mySQL export of the database in phpmyadmin (TKL LAMP Stack 11.3) and then import it to the new v12 one, it imports just fine...

Tremendous apprectiation for all the hard work and time commitment: Present and future community will appreciate this for quite some time.

 606 images. Wow.

Congratulations. I really appreciate your hard work

This is just pure awesome!!! Great job guys! :-D

Dennis

Been using Turnkey for a couple years now and it's really exciting to see some new appliances.  To everyone who has made this possible I can't thank you enough.  You all make our lives so much easier.

Now if I could only find the link to buy you guys another beer? I think it's been a while since I've bought a round, but this is much deserving.

Thanks Again!

Don't worry. Tim Berner Lee's vision of a free web is alive and kicking. Closed gardens and proprietary innovations may blossom for a time, but I believe open systems will eventually sweep them away just like the web swept away AOL, CompuServe and MSN. And remember when Microsoft was feared by all? The bigger they get, the harder they fall...

But I digress. Thank you Arnold for helping to keep the community alive, and for all the great ideas and enthusiastic feedback!

Great work guys.  We can only imagine all the time and details that you have covered!  So much more to say, but the big one is THANK YOU!

Landis A.

nice to see so many appliances...

I am going to test a few openVZ appliances in our LXC environment and see with how little adaptions I can make that working.. 

Unfortunately, this advantage will mostly apply to people upgrading from TurnKey 12.0. I agree that some tinkering may be required to get things to work, and I'm thinking of editing the blog post to reflect that but I don't think it will have much to do with the transition from Ubuntu to Debian. In fact, Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 forked off from the Debian unstable repository that turned into Squeeze not long after. Under the hood the package versions are actually closer than if TurnKey 12.0 was based on Ubuntu Precise 12.04.

Regarding participating in development "behind the scenes", that will become much easier once we finish our infrastructure revamp and open it up to the community. Until then don't underestimate how much you've helped just "hanging around in the forums". I shudder to to think what would have happened to the TurnKey community without your help. I've discovered we can get a huge amount of extra work done if we tune out the world and focus just on development, but we couldn't do that if it meant TurnKey would turn into a ghost-town.

Also, thanks for pointing out my conspicuous lack of recognition for Chris Musty's community involvement in recent months. It's a poor excuse but I've been buried under in development mode for too long. Update the blog post to give him the proper props!

Once again my patience has been rewarded! :) I look forward to taking these new releases for a spin. You guys seriously rock!! The sheer volume of the appliance library now is incredible. So many of these I have never even heard of!

The additions/tweaks to TKLBAM sound excellent and making the code available on GitHub certainly opens it up that little bit more. I look forward to having a bit of a look at what 'internals' has to offer.

Whilst I am a little sad to see the back of Ubuntu servers (at least for now) I think I can come to terms with that. And your rationale makes perfect sense. Now for the 64 bit appliances!?!

My only trepedation in this announcement is that unless you have tricked up TKLBAM to specifically handle this change, whilst many appliances may well migrate without issue (from v11.x to 12.x) I would expect at least as many issues as there were going from TKL v2009.x to v11.x. Ie it won't be trouble free for all and certainly won't be "Simple: Just use TKLBAM to create a backup of an existing older version and then restore it on TurnKey 12." (Sorry to put a damper on all the enthusiasm, just saying it how I see it!) I anticipate that at least some appliances will require a bit of tinkering to get working nicely.

Regardless, it's a huge milestone in the TKL project and I am proud to be a part of it all. I'm a little disapointed with myself that I haven't been able to be more a part of the dev process behind the scenes over the last 6mths or so but at least I've been able to help out with the forums amongst all the business of life that keeps getting in the way of what I'd like to do...

And finally; beyond the thanks already written by Liraz above, I'd like to give a special mention to the new community members that have joined us along the way. Their expertise (especially in areas where I have none) and input to the forums has been invaluable to the community and in helping people with their issues. These people that are putting back in in an obvious way have made my life as a forum mod much, much easier (and made me feel much less lonely! :D). Thanks so much to all of you! There are a number of people that probably deserve to be named and thanked personally, but for fear of leaving someone out (and/or creating a list that rattles on for ever...) I'm only going to name one that particularly stands out (to me at least); Chris Musty. So thanks Chris for your enthusiasm and professional expertise and insight (I'm more of a hobbyist myself). And to all you others that I haven't named (and surely deserve it) thanks so much for all you've put in, making everyone's life that little bit easier and making the forums a friendly, helpful place to come.

Not seeing 64bit support on the 12.0 release was a major dissapointment for me. I've been holding off on a TKL Zimbra server for a while now waiting for this release. 

Right now, it seems TKL has no email solution available. Here to hoping that changes very soon.

If you need help with something for the 64 Bit version, you should just ask.

I think plenty of people want to help out, if they know what is needed.

You do not need to use Amazon S3 storage if you don't want!? Personally I like to have local backups too, but S3 (the default TKLBAM storage) is cheap as chips (I currently have 8 appliances backing up with TKLBAM and my bill is literally a few cents per month) and allows you to take care of that essential offsite backup (assuming you care about your data) so easily.

To use local backup you will still need to set up an Amazon account (assuming you don't already have one) and the backup management is nowhere near as user-friendly (TKLBAM dash via the Hub makes it simple to see what, when and how much was backed up). But I can guarantee that if you run no backups to S3 then you won't ever be charged anything for TKLBAM (IIRC you may need to disable the automated backups to be certain). To be sure, you could even cancel your account after you do your migration if you desire.

If you haven't tried TKLBAM before, then I think now is the perfect time to give it a spin.

My only reservation though is that the migration using TKLBAM may still not be 100% flawless due to the diferences between versions of (upstream) software (some versions do things differently eg their database tables may be different). Many (most?) of the appliances will most likely be a straightforward migration. Even if it's not, most upstream software providers have at least migration notes/documentation, if not scripts (eg for adjusting DB schemas). But as I overlooked, and Liraz states, most of the core components (from Ubuntu repos in v11.x and Debian repos in v12.x) are virtually the same so should cause little to no issue, it's more the upstream installed software (eg Joomla jumps from v1.5  to 2.5).

Excellent job! I get a kick out of your Aussie (?) accent! I figure if someone who basically lives upside down can do it, then I should be able to follow the instructions. /grins/ Ric

I am currently doing video tutorials for different things TKL related.

There is quite a bit of contrent to get through but will be youtubing them soon.

The original thread is HERE

Thanks for the thumbs up. Sounds like you've gained a lot of valuable experience in the last 6 months. If you get any ideas on how we can improve TurnKey, speak up! We can't always respond immediately, especially when we're buried under in a development cycle, but a lot of our best ideas have come from the community.

I have been in the business of computing for 37 years and have worked on and managed the release of a number of global commercial communication appliance products. I have spent the last 6 months researching and working with a large number of commercial and open source cloud components.

I can say without reservation that the Turnkey Linux project and this release 12.0 is an astounding piece of work that is a key plank in any organisation's cloud mix. To have built this impressive library of technology with such a small team is just extraordinary.

It is with much appreciation for all the hard work that the TKL team put into this and previous releases that I would also like to extend my hearty congratulations.

Well done guys. Thank you.

I've looked at this at every angle and concluded that there's just no way to express how much there is to appreciate here (as much the product as the committed human labor that went into it).

Thank you for your commitment to a productive, active community whose feedback is not only welcome, but encourage and taken into account at every turn.

Don't worry Adam! I also thought that it was gone, but it got installed together with the packages. Whooh! And also a huge thanks from Mexico. A big up, and a cheers for all the hard work on this.

Greetings from Merida, Jose Ordonez.

PS. turnkeylinux rules!

You guys have saved my sanity, what there is left of it. If you EVER have an IPO, I want in. This is without a doubt the absolute best thing to happen to online computing since the modem. Again, thanks! I work for a non-profit and hope to educate others in the non-profit world how to use Turnkey. We have some fine minds, looking for work, who could make money installing and maintaining small web sites for those computer challenged in the non profit world. So, you may be the answer to prayers here. Ric

That would make sense actually because the mirror would be the same! The OVZ template is actually exactly the same file, whether you download manually or via PVE.

All the TKL images are hosted on SourceForge so I'm guessing it is a problem with whoever your closest SF mirror provider is. When you download a file from SF is runs a geo-location/bandwidth algorithm and then uses the closest/fastest mirror. Obviously for some reason or other whoever is mirroring SF files to you doesn't have the LAPP appliance OVZ (and for some reason isn't trying to mirror it).

Here is a link to download the LAPP OVZ where you can manually choose which SF mirror to use.

Hey Jeremy!

I ended up downloading the ISO from the website and uploading it that way. I just like the convenience of downloading directly from within Proxmox. Oddly enough, I had no problem downloading the core.

Have the mirrors changed since 12 released? Is there a new mirror list I can download?

Thanks!

Perhaps it's a problem with the SourceForge mirror that you are downloading from? It's working from my end.

If it continues to be a problem you could download it manually (OVZ template from the appliance page) and either upload it to PVE with the WebUI or SFTP to /var/lib/vz/template/cache.

Thanks so much for all the work you put into all these applications. They're truly awesome and you've made my life so much easier.

I am having a problem, though, downloading LAPP 12 from Proxmox. I'm getting a "not found" error. Can you check to see if there's a typo? I'd like to download the new LAPP and upgrade Pg 8.4 to 9.1 (out of functional necessity).

Looking forward to playing around with all these! :D

Now THAT would make one helluva container!! They offer up the source code so I'm wondering if there are resftrictions to it's use by someone like Turnkey??

Old question but I thought I would respond. A few folks have made Patches it seems to OpenERP 7.  It is fantastic software and worth a try.  OpenERP 7 came out in mid Dec 2012.

Is there anything out there to rival Quickbooks? I'd DEARLY love to see a Quickbooks killer. I want to get it out of our organization like they uproot Mandrake out of it's pot, screaming and shrieking, at Hogwarts. I'd settle for anything in the way of an accounting system. It's the only thing between me and a complete Turnkey setup. No more stinking licenses. We're handing the donations of little old Church Ladies to the World's Richest Man. Go figure. Jesus weeps. Ric

This is an old blog post which relates to a really old release. As such, it isn't super relevant anymore. As it seems to be attracting a lot of spam posts, I'm going to lock it. Please feel free to comment elsewhere or better still sign up and start a new thread.