[Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance] - Mailing list pgsql-www
From | Liraz Siri |
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Subject | [Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance] |
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Msg-id | 493E261D.1060707@turnkeylinux.org Whole thread Raw |
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Re: [Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance]
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Good idea! Hey guys, can you add our project to http://www.postgresql.org/download/? Cheers, Liraz -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:40:28 -0500 From: Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> To: Liraz Siri <liraz@turnkeylinux.org> References: <493D5BFF.1070000@turnkeylinux.org> Hi Liraz, You might try subscribing to the pgsql-www list and asking if it can be added as a link on the downloads page. The downloads page has numerous third party distributions listed for download... -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 919-463-0999/877-258-8987 http://www.otg-nc.com Liraz Siri wrote: > Hi everyone, > > One of the reasons often cited as to why MySQL is more popular than > PostgreSQL is ease-of-use. We're hoping to help change that. We've just > released a PostgreSQL software appliance we believe will make it easier > for people to try out PostgreSQL and see just how far the software has > come. > > Let me back up a bit... > > I am one of the developers for TurnKey Linux, a new opensource project > that develops a family of lightweight installable live CDs optimized for > various server-type tasks including LAMP, Ruby on Rails, Django, Joomla, > Drupal, MediaWiki, and others: > > http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances > > This type of pre-integrated, ready-to-use system is typically called a > software appliance: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_appliance > > Our project's goal is to build software appliances that are easy to use, > easy to deploy and free. In a nutshell, we believe everything that can > be easy, should be easy! > > We just released TurnKey PostgreSQL, an easy-to-use, lightweight, > installable live CD of the PostgreSQL relational database engine that > can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines. > It features a Mac OS X-themed Web management interface and a Python > configuration and installation console. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 > Hardy LTS, and is designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, > automatically updated, turn-key operating system environment that is > carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to > run PostgreSQL with maximum usability, efficiency, and security. > > Key features: > > * auto-updated daily with latest security patches > * MacOS X themed web management interface > * easy to use configuration console (written from scratch in Python) > * packaged as an installable Live CD that runs on real machines and VMs > * minimal footprint (152MB) - includes only minimum required components > * based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS > > http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/postgresql > > Check it out and tell us what you think! > > Also, we need help spreading > the word that an easy-to-use PostgreSQL software appliance exists. Any > ideas? > > Cheers, > Liraz > > -- Website: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~liraz-siri