Archive for February, 2010

TurnKey Linux virtual appliances

Friday, February 26th, 2010

TurnKey Linux virtual appliances are built almost entirely from unmodified Ubuntu binaries, it is possible for anyone to verify the integrity of the binaries that make up a virtual appliance against the original package signatures from the official Ubuntu repositories. There are minor exceptions. When required, a virtual appliance may contain a few custom packages which are updated from our cryptographically signed package repository. Full source code for all custom components is available in our code repository. Some components are also hosted on github.

BitNami & GoGrid FREE $100 trial

Friday, February 26th, 2010

GoGrid is offering a $100 service credit to BitNami users that will give you hundreds of hours of free cloud computing time to test out GoGrid and make sure it meets your need

HOWTO resign from an rPath rBuilder appliance

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

In the new rPath rBuilder flash UI the “resign from appliance” button is disabled so you need to either switch to the old UI or go directly to the old project membership page

http://www.rpath.org/project/-short-project-name-/members

for example

http://www.rpath.org/project/asteriskplus/members

rPath rBuilder docs

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

rPath rBuilder documents have a new home at

and there is still a wiki at

Which rPath rBuilder is right for you ?

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

There is now a choice of three different editions of rPath rBuilder:

  • rBuilder online edition (max 20 images)
  • rBuilder download free edition (max 20 images)
  • rBuilder download paid edition (unlimited images)

rPath have written a page summarising the differences between each !