Drupal is a highly modular opensource content management platform that can support a variety of websites ranging from personal blogs, corporate brochures and large community-driven websites.

The TurnKey Drupal 5 appliance is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD with Drupal 5.x, which can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines.

It features a MacOS X themed web management interface and a new configuration and installation console written in Python.

It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS and is designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, auto-updating, turn-key operating system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to run Drupal 5 with maximum usability, efficiency and security.

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

Here are some key features of "TurnKey Drupal 5 Live CD":

· auto-updated daily with latest security patches
· easy to use configuration console and web management interface
· minimal footprint - includes only minimum components needed
· packaged as an installable Live CD that runs on real machines and VMs

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Now includes phpMyAdmin and many popular Drupal5 modules.
· Rebuilt on top of TurnKey Core, the new common base for all software appliances, which is assembled from Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS packages.
· A bugfix in the daily auto-updates mechanism.
· Significant usability and security enhancements: confconsole support for systems with multiple NICs, password-free login in demo mode, SSL support, database password setting during installation, no passwords in demo mode, many generically useful Webmin modules, and improved embedded documentation.
· There are many other changes.