[turnkeylinux-users] web interface a high priority + writing about things other users might find helpful

[Liraz S. <li...@tu...>]

Hi Bill,

Integrating a web interface into Turnkey appliances is a high priority 
for us. You can take a look (and contribute if you like) to our 
development blueprints on Launchpad:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux

The leading candidates are in fact webmin (which we use at work) and 
eBox, which we have been hearing some good things about.

We would absolutely love for you to write about your experience with 
Turnkey, especially if you ran into issues (maybe those should be filed 
as bugs?).

We don't really know what tools people would prefer to use for community 
collaboration we pretty much have them all at this point (though that 
may change once we figure out what works best): a mailing list, web 
forums, community edited documentation, a development wiki, questions 
and answers database, bug report system. All of these tools are on our 
website.

Feel free to use any tool you find most convenient to document things 
you think other users (perhaps less knowledgable) would find useful: the 
issues you ran into + workarounds, how you installed various add-on 
applications, etc.

If you run into problems with the community tools themselves, we're also 
interested in feedback about that too!

Anyhow, the important thing I think is the content itself. You write it 
and we'll eventually find the best home for it (though I bet the 
community edited docs might be it).

Thanks for pitching in!

Cheers,
Liraz

Bill wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm Toms neighbor. I've loaded the LAMP version and have added Webmin 
> just because I'm a GUI type of person. Also have installed Wordpress. 
> Had a couple of minor issues but solved them. Need me to write something 
> up for you? Would suggest you include Webmin as I feel it is the easy 
> way to manage a Linux server.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Fwd: TurnKey support questions
> Date:     Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:38:45 -0400
> From:     Tom A <air...@em...>
> To:     Bill Bunge <bb...@pa...>
> 
> 
> 
> Here is forward from the developer
> 
> 
>> X-BINDING: md35.embarq.synacor.com
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>> smt...@tu...; spf=neutral
>> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:07:39 +0300
>> From: Liraz Siri <li...@tu...>
>> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227)
>> To: olddirt <air...@em...>
>> CC: Alon Swartz <al...@tu...>
>> Subject: TurnKey support questions
>> X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 8.0.169 [270.6.20/1666]
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for using TurnKey Linux!
>>
>> I'm one of the developers for turnkey linux. We're having a technical
>> problem with the forums so I'm replying to you by mail instead.
>>
>> We'll be looking into the Joomla extension problem you mentioned soon,
>> thanks for reporting it!
>>
>> Regarding setting the static IP, we are currently working on a
>> configuration console to be included in the next release which will let
>> you configure the network without having to log in and mess around with
>> the command line.
>>
>> In the meantime, you can log in with the default root password and
>> configure you IP the old fashioned way:
>>
>> joomla login: root
>> password: turnkey
>>
>> # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>>
>> This sets the IP until reboot. If you want the IP configuration to be
>> persistent, edit /etc/network/interfaces like this:
>>
>> # editor /etc/network/interfaces
>>
>>     auto eth0
>>     iface eth0 inet static
>>         address 192.168.0.10
>>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>>
>> For further details...
>>
>> # man interfaces
>>
>> And here's everything you ever wanted to know about network
>> configuration on Debian/Ubuntu but were afraid to ask:
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Liraz
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> You're getting old when there's no question in your mind that there's no 
> question in your mind.
>