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A TurnKey Linux software evaluation platform
One Good Turn
Administrators are happy in everyday life if they can finish their work with relative ease. Then comes an order from the powers that be to find time on the side to check whether some new application offers the desired functionality and whether it can be integrated seamlessly into the existing architecture.
What decision makers without an appropriate technical background often do not understand is that it is not possible to carry out a careful evaluation "on the side." Setting up such an environment is often associated with considerable effort. You can minimize this effort by using TurnKey Linux.
Rapid development in the IT sector makes it more and more difficult for experts to stay up to date. Evaluating new system versions or business software proves to be particularly difficult and time consuming.
With TurnKey Linux, you can evaluate more than 100 of the most important free enterprise applications on a local test system and operate the environment on a virtual machine or in the cloud. According to the developers, only open source tools are provided to ensure no license problems or restrictions.
TurnKey Linux (TKL) is based on Debian 7.2 and thus provides business applications and security updates for more than 37,500 packages. It is a virtual appliance platform with pre-installed, pre-configured, and immediately deployable applications and software solutions that are compiled with the Linux operating system in a virtual machine. An overview of the pre-installed applications on the homepage of the project website [1] can be limited to content management, web development, issue tracking, and messaging.
TurnKey Linux is managed with the Webmin web-based management interface [2], which provides the essential administrative tools (Figure 1). Webmin also provides
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