It's never unfounded to be cautious. Anything they've added is open source, and they seem fairly transparent. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux, http://code.turnkeylinux.org/, http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum, http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/general/20101120/security-turnkey-lamp).
For myself, I think it's a "don't know what you don't know" situation. As a mid-level Linux user, I think my odds of doing something stupid with a base system and getting pwned are higher than starting with a community-vetted project and going through the same security checklists that I would anyway. John On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Mike Rathburn <[email protected]> wrote: > I've always been weary of other's pre-built images. Skeptical of the > hidden > demons. Is that unfounded now? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Patterson [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 9:48 AM > > To: Jax-LUG > > Subject: Turn Key Linux > > > > This is the organization that Michael mentioned the other day - Turn Key > > Linux <http://www.turnkeylinux.org/all>. They have a killer variety of > pre- > > built linux images for tons of common configurations - everything from > full > > LAMP stacks to torrent seed boxes to domain controllers. Boot up, set > > passwords/settings, and you're good to go. > > > > I also just saw that they have a free "hub > <https://hub.turnkeylinux.org/>" > > that lets you deploy directly to Amazon now for those of us without > physical > > hosted servers. > > > > John > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
