The common base system on top of which all TurnKey Linux appliances are built. It includes custom automated backup and migration software, a web management interface, automatic daily security updates, live installer, configuration console, and all other common features. Take a look at some screenshots.

Features:

• Base distribution: Debian 8.0 (Jessie).

• Build formats: Deploys on bare metal, virtual machines (e.g., OpenStack, VMWare, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, KVM, Xen) and in the cloud.

  • ISO images: Generic installable Live CD. Installs anywhere.
  • Virtual Machine images: Optimized for virtualized hardware, pre-installed and ready to run.
  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Best launched via the TurnKey Hub.

• Smart backups (TKLBAM): Automated backup and restore, with system migration capabilities.
• Secure and easy to maintain: Auto-updated daily with latest security patches.
• Dynamic DNS (HubDNS): Associates your IP with a custom domain or the free *.tklapp.com domain.
• Logical Volume Management (LVM): Instead of installing to a fixed size partition, a Logical Volume is first created by default, and this may later be expanded, even across multiple physical devices.
• AJAX web shell (shellinabox) - secure command line access from any web browser.

• Web management interface (Webmin):

  • Listens on port 12321 (uses SSL).
  • Mac OS X themed.

  • Network modules:

    • Firewall configuration (with example configuration).
    • Network configuration.

  • System modules:
    • Backup and migration (TKLBAM).
    • Configure time, date and timezone.
    • Configure users and groups.
    • Manage software packages.
    • Change passwords.
    • System logs.
  • Tool modules:
    • Text editor.
    • Shell commands.
    • Simple file upload/download.
    • File manager (needs support for Java in browser).
    • Custom commands.
  • Hardware modules:
    • Partitions on local disks.
    • Logical volume management.

• Simple configuration console (confconsole):

  • Displays basic usage information.
  • Configure networking.

• First boot initialization (inithooks):

  • Prompt user for passwords.
  • Regenerates SSL and SSH cryptographic keys.
  • Installs latest security updates, unless user chooses to defer this for later.

• Command line power tools

  • Smart, programmable bash shell completion: helps you get more done with fewer keystrokes.
  • Support for $HOME/.bashrc.d shell hooks

  • Persistent environment variables (see $HOME/.bashrc.d/penv):

    penv-set pydoc /usr/share/doc/python2.6/html
    exit
    # later...
    cd $pydoc

• Automatic time synchronization with NTP