We’re happy to announce the release of updated BitNami Stacks for SugarCRM, Drupal, Redmine and Alfresco. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new releases are freely available as native installers, for installation on desktops or servers, virtual appliances, which can be run in VMWare and Virtualbox, and as cloud images for Amazon EC2 (AMIs) and GoGrid (GSIs). If you’re not familiar with these applications, here is a quick summary:

• SugarCRM: SugarCRM is a flexible customer relationship management solution for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM can easily be customized and integrated with… more

What if your own in-house applications were as easy to deploy as BitNami stacks? We’re excited to announce that we are now looking for beta users of BitNami Studio, our new offering that enables you to create customized, ready-to-run virtual machine or cloud images for your own internal applications or open source applications in minutes. The goal of BitNami Studio is to make it easy for you to build, clone, edit, and test your own application stacks. It is extremely flexible and allows you to customize each layer of the stack – the application, the runtime, the operating system… more

A few days ago we released Enano CMS 1.1.7. This release incorporates multiple new features: * A new, lean wiki engine * A brand new theme, Enanium, usable while looking great. * A redesigned Administrative dashboard in the Administrative Control Panel * A new interface for viewing site logs, with more logged data to be able to audit more effectively * Includes PostgreSQL support * Improved Internet Explorer support. * Unicode (UTF-8) support everywhere. * A new (work in progress) tutorial for new users. * Live Re-Authentication. Administrator authentication doesn’t reload the whole page. * And more…

Enano CMS… more

We put together the video below to show you how easy it is to get up and running with one of the BitNami virtual machine images, or ‘virtual appliances’. This video features the BitNami Joomla! Stack on VMWare Player, but the steps are virtually the same for every BitNami virtual appliance. All of the virtual appliances will also run in VirtualBox. … more

Quick start guide from the guys at Frugle… more

There is a great post up on Techsnot (yes, a somewhat unfortunate name :) on how to install Wordpress on a Mac in under 5 minutes using the BitNami Wordpress Stack. Although the author (‘dogsnot’) installs the Stack on a Mac, the steps are the same on Windows or Linux. In a future article, the author will explain how BitNami Modules work. If you are using BitNami and want to help us out, writing tutorials like this is a great way to contribute. Thanks to Dogsnot for his article!… more

One of the most requested features in BitNami forums is the ability to support both MySQL and PostgreSQL in the same Stack. We are glad to announce that we have released a PostgreSQL module which you can install over LAMPStack, MAMPStack, WAMPStack or RubyStack. This module ships and configures the PostgreSQL database and the phpPgAdmin application to manage this database through the web with ease. You can find the new add-on in the same download page of LAMPStack, MAMPStack, WAMPStack or RubyStack. Once you have downloaded it, you can select the installation folder where you have installed your previous LAMPStack,… more