We (Japan PostgreSQL User Group) have just created "PostgreSQL LiveCD" based KNOPPIX to promote PostgreSQL to newbies. It includes
- PostgreSQL 7.4.1 - PHP 4.3.4 - Apache 1.3.29 - Tomcat 4.1.9 (but J2SDK is not included because of license.) - phpPgAdmin 3.2.1 - pgAdmin3 1.0.2 - phpbb - Full text search in these manuals Screen shot: http://www.postgresql.jp/~snaga/shot.png If you boot your machine with this CD-ROM, all of them are running and you can start web application development without any installation. We will introduce this CD-ROM on NET&COM 2004(Feb.4-6) at Tokyo. Jean-Michel POURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > In the past, there were several discussions in order to find suitable answers > for MS Windows users willing to install and run PostgreSQL. > > Some of you suggested that users should "install GNU/Linux over Windows". Not > so easy for the basic MySQL or Ms Windows user, who need technical > assistance ... and fear to destroy their machine. > > Therefore, I would like to draw some attention on the Morphix CD project from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/morphix. > > Morphix is an auto-bootable Debian GNU/Linux distribution based on Knoppix. > > What makes Morphix different is that the project has several graphical > installers and wizards in preparation (written in plain C, using GTK-2 > libraries and Glade-2) ... which could possibly be used to install GNU/Linux > and PostgreSQL tools over MS Windows. > > You can download a preview CD of Morphix from this address: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-Gnome-0.4-1.iso?download > > Except for the installer itself, the wizards are not yet available in the main > Morphix CD. To have a look at them, you will need to checkout from CVS > (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/morphix) and open the files in > Glade-2. > > I also made some screenshots here: > > - morphixinstaller: once Morphix has booted in demo mode, you can use this > wizard to install Morphix on the disk. Screenshots: > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step1.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step2.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step3.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step4.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step5.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step6.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step7.png > > - isomorphgui: graphical distribution maker (select the requested packages for > your distribution and burn the ISO). Screenshots: > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/iso_morph_gui_1.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/iso_morph_gui_2.png > > - partitionmorpher: resize partitions on the fly (GTK-2 interface to > libparted). Screenshots: > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/partition_morpher_1.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/partition_morpher_2.png > > IMHO opinion, there is a need to study the Morphix project in more details. > > Morphix could be a possible solution to the MS Windows migration problems. It > probably involves 50 times less work than migrating PostgreSQL to MS Windows > (and is a complete different project except for the fact that it could well > bring as much new users to PostgreSQL than a native Win port and is less > risky). > > The possible steps for such a project could be (just a guess): > > 1) Validate Morphixinstaller, isomorphgui and partitionmorpher wizards. These > wizards are still in early stages of development. They are developed by one > person, who would probably like to receive some help. > > 2) Create a wizard for PostgreSQL post-installation steps using GTK-2 and > Glade-2: configuration of hosts and authentication, tuning and optimization > of various parameters (Mainly a graphical interface to pg_hba.conf and > postgresql.conf). > > 3) Gather all known PostgreSQL related Debian packages, including pgAdmin III, > PhpPgAdmin, as well as PHP, Apache and report tools (and much more) and burn > Morphix-PostgreSQL CDs. > > There could be a "light PostgreSQL CD" as well as a "complete PostgreSQL CD". > > 4) Create a single website in 30 languages (http://installer.postgresql.org?) > dedicated to releasing the installation CD. > > Based on the pgAdmin experience, there could well be more than 50.000 > downloads every month, out of which 70% would be migrating from MS Windows to > GNU/Linux. > > Comments and ideas are welcome. I would like to help anyone interested in > becoming the lead of such a project. > > Best regards, > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- NAGAYASU Satoshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
