https://www.turnkeylinux.org/100+ free ready-to-use system images for virtual machines, the cloud and bare metalen-UShttps://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/drupal-to-hugo/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/drupal-to-hugo/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:15:00 +0000TurnKeyLinux.org has accumulated a lot since the first Drupal version went online: appliance pages, documentation, release notes, screenshots, FAQs, blog posts, taxonomy terms and years of forum discussion. We are moving the public site to Hugo without pretending that history never happened. The forum is being preserved as a read-only archive for now. New forum software will be a separate job. Old discussions still answer search queries and old links still arrive from package notes, bookmarks …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/turnkey-19-trixie-progress/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/turnkey-19-trixie-progress/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:40:00 +0000TurnKey 19, based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, is getting close. Development has moved beyond changing a version number. The base system, installer, repository configuration and appliance overlays all have to agree before we can call an image boring enough to release. Boring is praise here. An installer should not be the most memorable part of setting up a server. What is changing The v19 appliance changelogs now track the Debian 13 base and several changes shared across the library. The new …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/which-turnkey-app/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/which-turnkey-app/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000The app library has nearly 90 current appliances. That is useful when you know the software name. It is less useful when all you know is the job that needs doing. Here are seven ordinary starting points. Publish a website Use WordPress when editors need a familiar content system, themes and plugins. Use LAMP when you have your own PHP application. If you are still deciding between those two, our LAMP or WordPress guide has the short version. Share files on a local network File Server provides …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/openvpn-three-use-cases/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/openvpn-three-use-cases/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:10:00 +0000The TurnKey OpenVPN appliance supports three modes because “I need a VPN” hides three different jobs. Pick the job first. The routing makes more sense after that. 1. Reach your private network while away This is the common server mode setup. A laptop or phone connects to OpenVPN over the Internet and receives access to services that should stay private: a file share, a development box, a printer interface or an internal wiki. The OpenVPN appliance sits inside the private network. Your router …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/observium-network-monitoring/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/observium-network-monitoring/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:45:00 +0000“The network is slow” is not much of a bug report. It could mean a saturated uplink, a dying access point, a backup job, packet loss, a full disk or one laptop doing something unfortunate. TurnKey Observium gives you history. It polls routers, switches, firewalls, servers and other devices through SNMP, then keeps graphs of traffic, errors, temperatures, storage and the other measurements those devices expose. That history is often the difference between guessing and fixing. Start with the path …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/file-server-private-nas/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/file-server-private-nas/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:05:00 +0000An old desktop with a quiet fan and a pair of decent disks can still do useful work. The TurnKey File Server turns it into shared storage for Windows, macOS and Linux machines without requiring a new NAS box or a subscription. This is a good fit for household documents, a small office share, archived project files and the folder everybody needs but nobody wants tied to one laptop. The appliance includes Samba for normal network shares and Webmin for administration. Decide what failure should …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/lamp-or-wordpress/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/lamp-or-wordpress/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:20:00 +0000People often compare LAMP and WordPress as if they were two editions of the same server. They are not. One is a foundation. The other is a finished application built on roughly that foundation. If the site you want is a WordPress site, install the WordPress appliance. You get WordPress, the web server, PHP, MariaDB and the TurnKey management tools in one image. The first boot asks for the important passwords and site details. After that you can log in and start publishing. Choose LAMP when the …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/recover-disk-space/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/recover-disk-space/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:00:15 +0000 Sometimes you may find yourself needing to clear some free space on your server. You can do that proactively, but may find yourself needing to do that when your disk space runs critically low - especially if you run out altogether. Temporary clean up Backup cache Clean up apt package lists Other caches Less temporary clean up Apt packages Apt's package cache Redundant packages Vacuum the journal Permanently reduce disk usage Make apt always remove new deb files are package install Reduce …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/python-externally-managed-environment/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/python-externally-managed-environment/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:25:05 +0000 Python Linux users would have noticed that python is now an "externally managed environment" on newer releases of most OS. That is indeed the case for Debian 10/Bookworm and thus TurnKey v18.x. It certainly did for me - at least initially. Marcos, a long term friend of TurnKey recently reached out to me to ask about the best way to work around this when developing on our Odoo appliance. The issue Before I go on, for those of you who are not sure what I'm talking about, try installing or …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-06/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-06/Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:41:20 +0000 The TKL team is thrilled to unveil 10 fresh updates to our appliance lineup! See here for all v18.x announcements. These 10 updated apps are available now on the TurnKey Hub, as well as downloads as ISOs or Proxmox/LXC builds. We're excited to announce that the release of 10 appliances is finally here, after a bit of a wait! Apologies for the delay—the TKL team is focused on streamlining our processes to make our company more efficient and give you guys faster releases. While there …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-05/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-05/Mon, 12 Feb 2024 05:47:43 +0000 Finally, following the announcement last week, we're back again with another batch of updated appliances - 20 to announce this time! See here for all v18.x announcements. These 20 updated apps are available now on the TurnKey Hub, as well as downloads as ISOs or Proxmox/LXC builds. The announcement of 10 of these appliances is well overdue. Half of these have been live and downloadable for some time. The issue is that I have been quite distracted working on other things and while I had drafted …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-04/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-04/Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:23:12 +0000 We're thrilled to announce the forth stable release of version 18.0, bringing another 10 updated appliances, including updated ISOs and Hub builds, with Proxmox/LXC support builds as well! This release marks another milestone in our commitment to providing versatile and reliable solutions for our users - albeit a little delayed. FWIW, these have actually been published for a little while, I've just been a bit slow finalising this announcement. Regardless, whether you're running a personal …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-03/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-03/Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:54:36 +0000 We have the 3rd v18.0 stable release batch ready to roll (see all v18.x related announcements here). This batch brings the total number of v18.0 stable releases so far to 23! As per usual, it's taking longer than I would like, but they are coming together. This release consists of 10 freshly updated and tested v18.0 appliances. This release includes all v18.0 LXC/Proxmox builds to date, as well ISOs and Hub builds. A few Proxmox users have reported success with the Proxmox/LXC builds but if you …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-02/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-02/Fri, 13 Oct 2023 03:51:51 +0000 We have the 2nd v18.0 stable release batch ready to roll (see all v18.x related announcements here). This batch brings the total number of v18.0 stable releases so far to lucky number 13! As per usual, it's taking longer than I would like, but they are coming together. This release consists of 11 freshly updated and tested v18.0 appliances. As per the previous announcements, this release is only ISOs and Hub builds. Once we have a few more published, I plan to circle back and build for Proxmox …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-01/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-stable-release-01/Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:03:20 +0000 Happy to announce the stable release of Turnkey v18.0. Took a little longer than I had hoped and there are only two this time. Regardless, we've finally made it to the stable release milestone, at least for Core and TKLDev. I know we'll keep the momentum up and have more v18.0 appliances ready really soon! In the meantime, these 2 new v18.0 appliances are published to our mirror network and are also available for download direct from their relevant appliance pages (app page links above, direct …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-release-candidates/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v18.0-release-candidates/Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:57:54 +0000 I'm happy to announce the pre-release of the next major version of TurnKey GNU/Linux. The first v18.0 Release Candidates of Core and TKLDev are ready for download, inspection and open for feedback.. Core and TKLDev As per always, we are pre-releasing our base OS appliance, Core v18.0rc1 and asking the community to give it a spin and let us know what you think. As has become convention, we are also pre-releasing our "build tool in a box", TKLDev v18.0rc1. For the uninitiated, TKLDev is literally …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-6/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-6/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:57:00 +0000 We have the 6th (and hopefully final) release for 17.x (see previous v17.x announcements here if you wish). There may be some stragglers, but we're fairly close to finishing the v17.x release. As per the previous announcements, this release is only ISOs, Hub builds, as well as Proxmox LXC. It's still unclear when we might have other builds available. As per usual, these updated appliances can all be found on our mirror network, downloaded from their relevant pages …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-5/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-5/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:04:18 +0000 We have the 5th release for 17.1 (see previous v17.x announcements here if you wish). We're fairly close to finishing the initial v17.x release, with only 4 appliances remaining - so one more small batch! Those with sharp eyes might notice that there are a few more than that not yet updated. Most of them are due to limitations in upstream software (e.g. a number of old Python applications still haven't yet been updated to Python3). These may or may not be reintroduced in the future, …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-4/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-4/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:50:33 +0000 I hope everyone had a happy holiday season; Turnkey associates have definitely been busy over the holidays. We have a 4th installment of stable v17.1 appliances and the 7th release for 17.x (see the first 6 announcements here if you wish). As previously noted, all of these apps have the v17.0 bugfix applied (many had no official v17.0 release). We're now getting fairly close to finishing the initial v17.x release, with probably one, perhaps 2 more batches. This release …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/how-to-create-new-sftp-user-with-access-to-var-www/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/how-to-create-new-sftp-user-with-access-to-var-www/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 05:03:33 +0000 In what appears to be the new way I do things (i.e. here and here), following a question from TurnKey Hub user Rob, I'm posting this "tutorial" as a blog post. Via Hub support, Rob asked about the best way to set up a user who can SFTP into his TurnKey WordPress server and upload/download files. He noted that he had followed my vague advice on a support thread (I'm not sure which one as he didn't explicitly say - perhaps one of these?). Regardless, it wasn't working as he'd hoped. I gave him …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/install-newer-postgresql-on-turnkey/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/install-newer-postgresql-on-turnkey/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:29:05 +0000 TurnKey Hub user Vishal recently asked about installing PostgreSQL v14+ on TurnKey. He noted that he was interested in Postgres 14 or higher because of the new IVM extension (incrementally updating materialized views). I started answering his support request, but then thought I might as well post this on the blog as perhaps it provides value for others?! Firstly, some context and background... Installing software Where possible, we recommend that TurnKey users just use the packages provided by …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-3/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-3/Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:53:01 +0000 This will be technically the 3rd installment of stable v17.1 appliances and the 6th release for 17.x (see the first 5 announcements here if you wish). As previously noted, all of these apps have the v17.0 bugfix applied (many had no offical v17.0 release). We're now getting fairly close to finishing the initial v17.x release, with probably one, perhaps 2 more batches. This release consists of 14 updated and tested appliances. As per the previous announcements, this release is only ISOs, Hub …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-2/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-stable-release-2/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:28:56 +0000 After a bit of a delay - due to other competing priorities; such as our webserver dying - the v17.x release continues. As per previous updates all these appliances are being built as v17.1. Whilst this is the 2nd installment of stable v17.1 appliances, it is also the 5th release blog post for 17.x appliance updates (see the first 4 announcements here if you wish). This release consists of 24 tested and updated appliances. Building on the previous v17.x releases, this release contains not …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/hacking-on-debian-packages/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/hacking-on-debian-packages/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:23:48 +0000 TurnKey user Ed Carp was recently trying to install TKLBAM on Linux Mint 20.3/Una (which is based on Ubuntu 20.04/Focal). Despite my best efforts, he kept hitting issue after issue. As part of that troubleshooting process, I wanted to hack on the problematic package and see if I could work around a dependency issue. It turns out that on this occasion, it really wasn't compatible and I had to generate a specific Ubuntu 20.04 compatible build of the package. I'd really like to improve TKLBAM …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-release-continues-with-bugfix/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.1-release-continues-with-bugfix/Tue, 17 May 2022 03:19:10 +0000 After a bit of hiccup, I am pleased to be back to announce the ongoing release of v17.x appliances. Because of the bug, the previously released v17.0 appliances have been patched with a bugfix and re-released as v17.1. They also include all the latest Debian packages. Updated apps, new for v17.x When the bug hit, there were 15 updated v17.0 appliances that had been built ready for release, but not yet published. We have patched these v17.0 ISOs too and included them in this v17.1 bugfix …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/bug-v17.0-security-updates-kernel-panic/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/bug-v17.0-security-updates-kernel-panic/Mon, 09 May 2022 08:57:07 +0000 2022-05-17 Update: All affected appliances have now been bugfixed and rebuilt as v17.1. The v17.x release will continue, with all new appliances to be released as v17.1. As first reported by user ZZRabbit, in our forums, there is a serious bug in TurnKey v17.0! Once security updates are installed on v17.0 appliances (namely a kernel update), a reboot will result in a kernel panic. Others have since confirmed the issue and I have a workaround. Other issues have been noted, but they seem to be …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-how-to-optimized-builds/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-how-to-optimized-builds/Sat, 07 May 2022 03:26:01 +0000 2022-05-17 Update: Please note that due to a bug, all v17.0 appliances have now been bugfixed and rebuilt as v17.1. The v17.x release will continue, with all new appliances to be released as v17.1. Important note: As noted in the v17.1 release announcement the root issue that caused the kernel panic bug still exists in TKLDev! This DOES NOT affect building alternate builds from "official" v17.1 apps, but will affect any ISOs that you build with TKLDev v17.0 or v17.1. The bugfix/v17.1 …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-stable-release-3/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-stable-release-3/Thu, 05 May 2022 06:40:11 +0000 2022-05-17 Update: All affected appliances have now been bugfixed and rebuilt as v17.1. The v17.x release will continue, with all new appliances to be released as v17.1. Important announcement: A serious bug has been discovered in v17.0. Everyone running v17.0 is advised to follow the directions as noted to fix the immediate bug. Due to this issue, the v17.0 release has been halted for now. v17.0 download links have been removed from appliance pages. Production will resume ASAP, first with the …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-stable-release-2/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-stable-release-2/Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:56:35 +0000 2022-05-17 Update: All affected appliances have now been bugfixed and rebuilt as v17.1. The v17.x release will continue, with all new appliances to be released as v17.1. Important announcement: A serious bug has been discovered in v17.0. Everyone running v17.0 is advised to follow the directions as noted to fix the immediate bug. Due to this issue, the v17.0 release has been halted for now. v17.0 download links have been removed from appliance pages. Production will resume ASAP, first with the …https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-stable-core-and-tkldev/https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/v17.0-stable-core-and-tkldev/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:47:29 +0000 2022-05-17 Update: All affected appliances have now been bugfixed and rebuilt as v17.1. The v17.x release will continue, with all new appliances to be released as v17.1. Important announcement: A serious bug has been discovered in v17.0. Everyone running v17.0 is advised to follow the directions as noted to fix the immediate bug. Due to this issue, the v17.0 release has been halted for now. v17.0 download links have been removed from appliance pages. Production will resume ASAP, first with the …