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New TurnKey Core base appliance (2009.02-hardy)
Release focus: security, usability, bugfixes and updates
Changes:
- Initial public release of the TurnKey Linux "core": It's the basic appliance on top of which all TurnKey Linux appliances are now built.
- Upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS
- Added many generically useful webmin modules:
- Network
- Firewall configuration (with example configuration)
- Network configuration
- System
- Configure time, date and timezone
- Configure users and groups
- Manage software packages
- Change passwords
- System logs
- Tools
- Text editor
- Shell commands
- Simple file upload/download
- File manager (needs support for Java in browser)
- Custom commands
- Network
- Changed webmin port from 10000 to 12321 (more distinct, easier to type)
- Regenerate cryptographic keys during installation
- SSH keys
- Default SSL certificate (used by webmin, Apache, lighttpd)
- Configured SSHD to permit an empty password in demo/live mode
- Improved package management configuration
- Enabled Ubuntu's Universe component by default (convenience)
- Cron-apt configured to:
- Correctly handle modified conffiles when auto-upgrading (won't hang)
- Only auto-upgrade packages from the security components
- Update the cache for all components
- Share sources with other interfaces to apt (e.g., apt-get)
- Log to syslog instead of mailing root
- New versions of confconsole and di-live include many improvements and bugfixes (see their respective release notes for details)
- Changed default console font to improve readability of console dialogs
- Added a few generically useful packages (iptables, ntp, nano)
- Updated /etc/network/interfaces to support multiple network interface cards
- Replaced metalog with sysklogd/klogd
- Optimized footprint (rebuilt from bare essentials)
- Added the release package that holds this changelog
Note: Changes are relative to the lowest common denominator of pre-Core TurnKey Linux appliances.