spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance
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
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Website: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~liraz-siri
Hi Todd,
Interesting you should bring that up, supporting high availability is
actually something we've talked about doing a bit further down the road.
Before we get to that though, there are still quite a few low hanging
fruit to pick.
If someone with experience in this field picks up the ball and makes his
expertise available to us we'll probably be able to do this earlier
rather than later.
Cheers,
Liraz
Todd Yocum wrote:
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Just a FWIW, for a customer I recently did some research into
HighAvailabilty solutions (HA) for a JBoss system that has a database
backend. While PostgreSQL was my database of choice for the customer,
there were no turnkey HA solutions for PostgreSQL. A turnkey solution
that provides that would probably be of value to customers, in my opinion.Liraz Siri wrote:
Also, we need help spreading
the word that an easy-to-use PostgreSQL software appliance exists. Any
ideas?Cheers,
Liraz
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