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Two weeks in using Bitnami. Very impressed and satisfied so far. Have set up two development servers that are now running exactly as I wished. The Bitnami component of the elapsed time took about an hour to get fully fleshed LAMP servers with all the apps I wanted. The Fred component -- making application mistakes, debugging them, fixing, deleting, restoring -- took the remainder of the two weeks. My Bitnami wish list as of today:
What are other ideas?
This question is marked "community wiki".
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Sample output of new apps via dashboard/script: (assuming plain lampstack installed)
That is just a suggestion, us programmers being lazy people :) |
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my #1 priority would be installing multiple Redmine instances on the same stack. I'm working on Redmine Java API and I need a lot of Redmine instances for regular testing. it's a pain in the ... to install all them manually. they all want different versions of everything. it's a hell! I was very happy to find Bitnami stack, but it turned out I can't install Redmine 1.4.3 as a module after I already installed Redmine 2.0.2 in my "stack". the new install partially overwrote the old one! so redmine 1.4.3 was launched with Redmine 2.0.2 database left from the previous install. totally messed up. I need 8-9 Redmine instances on this server and installing a stack per instance (and having 8-9 apaches and mysql servers) is not a great idea... Thanks for your feedback, this is a popular feature and it is present in our TODO list.
(19 Jun '12, 02:57)
Beltran Rueda ♦♦
Beltran, are you planning to implement this any time soon? this would be a great feature to support.
(19 Jun '12, 14:09)
AlexBitnami
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I would love to see a Virtual Machine version of the RubyStack which includes Postgres as well as or as an alternative to MySQL. Or is there any other way of achieving this? Can I install the Postgres add-on into a virtual machine created initially with the Ruby Stack? The documentation seems to suggest that modules can only be used with native installs on top of LAMP/WAMP etc stacks? |
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I like the Voting section, but it is cumbersome to step through each application, one at a time, and view the brief description, etc. With a little javascript, would it be more useful to add the first X characters of the description, and allow expansion, if it looks attractive, to show the whole page? For example: n Votes SMW+ | semantic enterprise wiki that lets you tag, process and query data...|v| [VOTE] [SHARE] ==------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 'v' down arrow would open a fuller description. Thank you very much for your suggestion. We will look at it. Best regards.
(02 May, 02:51)
victor ♦♦
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Thanks a lot for your feedback! This wish list is very useful for us and to decide the next improvements in BitNami :) |
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IRC is a definite must. (pref. FreeNode) It's hard to actively engage in or be a part of a FLOSS-based community without IRC, even if it's an informal gathering of users to help each other out Thank you for giving us your opinion.
(15 Oct '12, 09:55)
victor ♦♦
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A BitNami Moztrap installer would be nice. :) https://moztrap.readthedocs.org/en/1.4.6/installation.html Thank you for the suggestion. Could you please suggest it for our bi-weekly contest and promote it?
That way it will be packaged for sure if it wins! Regards.
(11 May, 04:48)
victor ♦♦
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+1 for adding new apps via dashboard