40 of the best open source server apps as free ready-to-use Ubuntu appliances

The project which already supported many popular open source applications including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, LAMP and Django has expanded its virtual appliance library to include:

• Complex "killer app" integrations: Windows domain controller, torrent server, file server, and an all-in-one revision control server .
• Commercially-backed enterprise software: Zimbra, OpenBravo, tWiki, MovableType and MindTouch Deki.
• Popular content management applications: Moodle, DokuWiki, MoinMoin, and Gallery.
• Popular issue tracking applications: BugZilla, Mantis, OTRS, Trac,  RedMine and Project Pier.
• And many more.

In addition to the installable Live CD ISO format, all appliances are now packaged in a standard virtual appliance format that can run directly on a virtual machine with no installation necessary.

Appliances have also been ported to a Amazon's AMI format, making it possible to launch TurnKey Linux appliances directly into Amazon's EC2 cloud. Amazon supports hourly billing which at $0.1/hour opens up a variety of interesting use cases.

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