Dramatic usability improvements in new version of Drupal Live CD

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For those of you still using Drupal 5, the TurnKey Linux project is proud to announce the release of a new version (2008.10.17-hardy-x86) of TurnKey Drupal 5 featuring dramatic usability improvements over the previous version (2008.09.02-hardy-x86).

For those who prefer Drupal 6, we also released TurnKey Drupal 6 a couple of days ago.

Changes since previous version

  • includes latest security patches backported to Drupal 5.10
  • easy to use configuration console (written from scratch in Python)
  • a beautiful web management interface (Mac OS X themed)
  • auto-login while in demo/live mode
  • root password configuration during installation

See the release notes for further details.

About TurnKey Drupal 5

TurnKey Drupal is a lightweight, installable live CD of Drupal 5, which can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines.

Out of the box, TurnKey Drupal is designed to provide users with a ready to use, auto-updating, turn-key operating system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to run Drupal with maximum usability, efficiency and security.

About TurnKey Linux

TurnKey Linux is an opensource project that aims to develop high-quality software appliances that are easy to deploy, easy to use, and free. Our motto is "everything that can be easy, should be easy!"

Learn more on our homepage

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lirazsiri: Could you provide

Bojhan's picture

lirazsiri: Could you provide us with a demo of v5 and v6?

Bohjan: I'm not sure what

lirazsiri's picture

Bohjan: I'm not sure what you mean.

If you mean "demo" as in a free version of the product you can try out then all our releases can be used and distributed freely - we're an opensource project just like Drupal!

If you mean "demo" in the sense of an online demo you can explore without having to download our ISO - we don't have something like that setup yet though we might in the future. In the meantime, feel free to download the ISO from the website and explore it inside a free virtual machine product such as virtualbox.

Well its mostly for the

Bojhan's picture

Well its mostly for the people who are involved in the usability of Drupal to take a look, it's a bit of a hassle if everyone one of us has to set it up just to see what changes you made - if you can supply is with a demo or more indepth screenshots on the changes you made that would be fine as well.

Added a link to more screenshots...

lirazsiri's picture

Bohjan: I've added a link to more screenshots, and a link to the wikipedia article on software appliances. Note that we didn't actually make any changes to Drupal itself. We're just packaging Drupal as an easy to use software appliance.

Hope this helps!

So, you'r whole title of

Bojhan's picture

So, you'r whole title of Dramatic usability imrpovements in new Drupal Live CD is wrong? I don't get why you say that and then not show any of the dramatic improvements.

Refined description to prevent misunderstanding

lirazsiri's picture

Bohjan: Sorry you misunderstood me and thank you for bringing this to my attention. I refined the description to hopefully prevent future misunderstandings.

The dramatic usability improvements described are over the previous version of TurnKey Drupal 5 announced here.

You see the previous version didn't include a web management interface or a configuration console and required users to muck around in the command line. We responded to the community's feedback and gave usability top priority - leading to this new release.

Hope that clears things up!

So

Pasqualle's picture

So you have a Drupal 5.10 on your own linux distribution.. I don't understand why do you name it TurnKey Drupal, when it is the original Drupal.

and this statement is very confusing:
includes latest security patches backported to Drupal 5.10

includes Drupal 5.10 should be better

and you can't name anything as Drupal Live CD, because you are violating the Drupal trademark (as I know).

Why its called TurnKey Drupal

lirazsiri's picture

Thanks for your input.

TurnKey Linux is a non-commercial opensource project developing a family of such pre-integrated software appliances, one of which is TurnKey Drupal. We've also released appliances for Joomla, MediaWiki and the LAMP stack, with many more appliances in the works.

The naming convention is simply a matter of convenience and simplicity. Its pretty much standard practice for developers of software appliances. For reference, try browsing through the Vmware appliance marketplace or rPath's directory of appliances.

Will this liveCD work as a

tumnus's picture

Will this liveCD work as a way of retrieving content from an sql dump of an old site that used to run on drupal 5.x?

I never got the site back up on drupal when I moved to a different web hosting provider. I also realized that drupal was too "big" for the kind of site I really wanted, so i plan to "downgrade" to just a wiki - but I need the content from the old site.

I'd like to hear from ya.

Yes, it could be useful for that...

lirazsiri's picture

Yes, you can use our software appliance to bring your old site back to life on a local virtual machine, and that should then make it easier for you to retrieve the content and transfer it over to the new site/wiki.

Cheers,
Liraz

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http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/drupal

I tore my hair trying to

tumnus's picture

... access the drupal5 database, but i've not been able to.

I'm running a live system CD. What's weird though is that it worked last night. I know I will loose content and data settings, but I thought that would be fine since I can simply restore the sql dump again. Well, that's what i thought.

I've already set a password for root but I still wouldn't display the drupal5 database.

solved!

tumnus's picture

i overlooked the difference between the two root accounts. that solved the problem