Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL installation CD based on Morphix

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 <jm(at)poure(dot)com> 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,
>
>
>
>
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