TurnKey Linux
100+ ready-to-use solutions: discover and leverage the best free software. Deploy solutions quickly on bare metal, virtual machines, or in the cloud.
Free as in speech: free software with full source code and a powerful build system (TKLDev). Free of hidden backdoors, free from restrictive licensing and free to learn from, modify and distribute.
Secure and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches.
It just works: designed for ease of use, built and tested collaboratively by the community.
Backup and migration: built-in backup software (TKLBAM) saves changes to files, databases and package management to encrypted storage which servers can be automatically restored from.
- Status: active (2023-08-17)
Homepage: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/
Origin story: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/about
- Microblog:
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- Funding model: funded by sales (which include limited support); some funding and in kind from sponsorship
- Merchandise:
Location: focused on serving users/customers globally | completely international (only English by default) | developers in Israel, Australia & <s>Ukraine</s> Germany; significant development contributions from US & European based volunteers
Privacy policy: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/privacy
Data collection: anonymous stats (appliance name, tkl version & Debian base codename) collected via our apt repo (using apt user-agent) (/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01turnkey)
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- hardware wishlist:
- hardware supported: Debian compatible amd64 hardware and VMs (arm64 support coming?)
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- Debian list:
user forums: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum
devel forum: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum
- Debian forum:
Security contact: Alon Swartz or Jeremy Davis <security@turnkeylinux.org>
Debian derivatives census maintainer: Jeremy Davis <jeremy@turnkeylinux.org>
Debian derivatives census page: Derivatives/Census/TurnKeyLinux
Debian derivatives census output: http://deriv.debian.net/TurnKeyLinux/
- Subscribers:
Distrowatch page: https://distrowatch.com/turnkey
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurnKey_Linux_Virtual_Appliance_Library
Distribution type: live image (ISO) | installable (ISO) | preinstalled (VMDK, OVA, OpenStack, Proxmox (LXC), LXC, Xen, Docker)
Debian derivative model: uses Debian binary packages and adds new binary packages (deb-src source repo todo... see https://github.com/turnkeylinux/tracker/issues/199)
- Debian archive quantity: overlay
- Based on: Debian stable (Bookworm release upcoming)
- Interfaces: console (via local console or SSH) or Webmin (web based admin UI via https on port 12321)
- Init systems: systemd
Archive tool: custom (https://github.com/turnkeylinux/repo)
- Build status:
Build tools: TKLDev - custom appliance building toolset packaged as an appliance - internal package build: pool - internal OS build: fab
- Image build: from scratch
Image tool: TKLDev - custom appliance building toolset - specifically pool
Install tool: custom: di-live (considering move to default di)
VCS repository: https://github.com/turnkeylinux (packages, tools & shared build code) | https://github.com/turnkeylinux-apps (individual appliance build code)
Bug tracker: https://github.com/turnkeylinux/tracker/issues
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- Package info:
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- Architectures: amd64 only
dpkg vendor: ?TurnKey
- Patches repo:
Docs about TurnKey Linux for Debian developers: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/help/dev
Docs about Debian for TurnKey Linux developers: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/help/dev
TurnKey Linux glossary:
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list of developers: Jeremy Davis (core dev), Alon Swartz (co-founder & core dev), Anton Pyrogovskyi (dev), Stefan Davis (dev), Mattie Darden (dev), previous/intermittent devs: Zhenya Hvorostian (intermittent dev), Vlad Kuzmenko (previous dev), Chris Lamb (contract dev) & Liraz Siri (co-founder & previous core dev)
developer blogs: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/dev
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- derivatives of this distribution:
mirrors list: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/mirrors
- mirror CDNs:
- mirror tools: rsync, ftpsync
changelogs pool: http://mirror.turnkeylinux.org/turnkeylinux/metadata/
- apt repositories (binary, stablerelease):
# No source packages available
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian bookworm main
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian bookworm-security main
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian bookworm-testing main
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian bullseye main
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian bullseye-security main
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian bullseye-testing main
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian buster main
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian buster-security main
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian buster-testing main
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian stretch main
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian stretch-security main
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian jessie main
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian jessie-security main
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian wheezy main
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian wheezy-security main
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian squeeze main
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian squeeze-security main
deb [arch=i386] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian lenny main
deb [arch=i386] http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/debian lenny-security main
Notes:
deb-src source repo coming - see https://github.com/turnkeylinux/tracker/issues/199
Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy & Jessie repos to be removed - see https://github.com/turnkeylinux/tracker/issues/200
Last updated 2023-08-17 01:37:52