Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications.

The TurnKey Joomla appliance is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD with Joomla, 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 Joomla with maximum usability, efficiency and security.

TurnKey Joomla 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 Joomla 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 ]

· Upgraded to Joomla 1.5.14
PHPMyAdmin improvements:
· Added pmadb (linked tables) advanced features to PHPMyAdmin (LP#426303).
· Pinned PHPMyAdmin to update directly from Debian (security).
di-live (installer) MySQL component:
· Added support for complex passwords (LP#416515).
· Added CLI options (user/pass/query/chroot).
· Bugfix: Removed build systems hostname from mysql user table.
· Regenerates all secrets during installation / firstboot (security).