Link: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/news/200910-release-40-new-appliances-amazon-ec2

The guys at Turnkey Linux have just released a new set of appliances, along with updates to their existing ones. They've added a whopping 25 new appliances, all of which we will have available shortly at GigaTux for install on our VPS systems.

They've clearly been very hard at work creating these, so hats off to them!

GigaTux will provide a donation for any users choosing Turnkey Linux on their VPS. We haven't decided yet the structure of the donations, but their good work will definitely be rewarded!

I'm proud to announce the 2009.10 release batch featuring:

• 25 new additions to the TurnKey Linux virtual appliance library
• added native virtual appliance packaging (OVF support included)
• Amazon EC2 support, with EBS persistence
• Core improvements: Ajax web shell, upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04.3

The project recently celebrated its one year birthday. Since our last major release in March the project picked up steam with weekly downloads increasing over 500% (we just flew past 60,000 downloads). Not bad for a new server oriented project. With all the goodies in this new release, and all the stuff we're working on for the next release, TurnKey Linux's second year should be even more interesting.

This release is a big one. Previously we tried "releasing early releasing often", but discovered we could get more done by batching certain phases of virtual appliance development and decided to give bigger release increments a try.