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No Juju for you! Ubuntu's Not Invented Here syndrome
Today Brian emailed me to share his enthusiasm for the Ubuntu Juju project, developed by Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu. Brian is a good friend that has been advising us …
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Announcing TurnKey Linux 12.0: 100+ ready-to-use solutions
Ladies and gentlemen, the 12.0 release is finally out after nearly 6 months of development and just in time to celebrate TurnKey's 4th anniversary. I'm proud to announce we've …
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TurnKey 11.3 maintenance release - next stop Ubuntu 12.04!
Ho ho ho, happy holidays everyone! I know most of you are already shifting into holiday mode, so I'll keep it short and sweet. We've just pushed out TurnKey 11.3 - the final …
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How to write a good changelog
In a nutshell, think of your users. They read top to bottom. They have a very limited attention span. Even if they read all the way through, they're probably going to pay more …
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Important security notice: Your TurnKey system may no longer be receiving automatic security updates
I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that if your TurnKey installation is older than 2 weeks you may no longer be receiving security updates. The good news is …
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TurnKey Domain management & Dynamic DNS
A while ago I was chatting with Liraz and said "wouldn't it be great if when launching a cloud server the Hub would perform some magic and assign the server a friendly name? I'm …
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Vim file exploration tips
Find filename patterns Using Vim's built-in file explorer, it's possible to find specific filenames by pattern. For example: # :Ex is short for :Explore # search all …
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TurnKey Linux 11 released (part one)
Ladies and gentlemen, part 1 of the TurnKey Linux 11 release is now officially out, including 45 new images based on Ubuntu 10.04.1. We pushed out the 11.0 release candidates 3 …
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Announcing the winners of the first TurnKey development contest
Ladies and gentlemen, by now you are all shuddering in anticipation, dying to find out who won the very first TurnKey appliance development contest... in the history of the …
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UDS - Natty Narwhal summary
As I previously mentioned, I was graciously sponsored by Canonical to participate in the Ubuntu Developer Summit held in Orlando, Florida. It was a very productive and fun week. …
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Finding the closest APT package archive using GeoIP and indexing
In preparation for TurnKey's upcoming release based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS, we are knocking off todo list items. One of them is code-named auto-apt-archive. As you can guess …
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Meet Rik Goldman
Rik Goldman is the English and Info Systems teacher that led a team of six high school students to help develop 3 new TurnKey Linux appliances for Ampache, LimeSurvey and Elgg. …
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TKLPatch summer contest summary: let the judging begin!
It all started with a happy accident I have a confession to make. This contest, which is directly fueling the largest expansion of the TurnKey library since the project started, …
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TKLBAM: a new kind of smart backup/restore system that just works
Drum roll please... Today, I'm proud to officially unveil TKLBAM (AKA TurnKey Linux Backup and Migration): the easiest, most powerful system-level backup anyone has ever seen. …
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Ask us anything
We're going to be doing a series of interviews with prominent TurnKey community members so we figured it would make sense to do an interview with the founders of TurnKey (that's …
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GNU high school: teaching kids by contributing to open source
Today I'd like to spotlight TurnKey's unlikely relationship with Chelsea School, a high school in suburban Maryland. I'm going to try to tell this story on two levels: The …
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Tip: use custom search engines for efficiency
I don't need to tell you how search improves our efficiency on the web, but using custom search engines can make your day even more efficient. Configuring your browser to use …
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TurnKey Appliance Development Contest: An Open Source Summer Bonanza!
Over the last few months donations have been trickling in and gradually piling up. Since there's a limit to how much beer we can reasonably drink we've been brainstorming ideas …
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Beta of TurnKey Core on Debian Lenny (+ Ubuntu vs Debian)
We've just uploaded to SourceForge our first ever Debian-based virtual appliance: a beta of TurnKey Core on the rock stable Lenny release. DOWNLOAD BETA: 105MB …
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Beta of TurnKey Core on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Well, it took a little longer than expected, but we are pleased to announce that TurnKey Core - the common base for all appliances, has been released based on Ubuntu 10.04 …