We have recently shipped a graphical tool to simply the servers management in AMP & APP Stacks for Linux, OS X and Windows. The BitNami Manager Tool is a simple graphical interface that can start and stop the BitNami servers that are located in the same installation directory. To start the utility, double click the file named ‘manager-windows’,‘manager-linux’ or ‘manager-osx’ from your file browser.

The use of the tool is pretty easy. There are buttons to start, stop and restart each… more

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami JRubyStack. The most important improvement is that the updated stack includes the latest stable version of JRuby, 1.5.6 which is the java implementation of Ruby 1.8.7. It also includes recent versions of Tomcat, Subversion and SQLite together with updated gems. You can view the full list of changes in the changelog. Enjoy developing with JRuby in your machine, in a virtual appliance or in the cloud. Just go to http://bitnami.org/stack/jrubystack and use your preferred environment…. more

We are excited to announce two new Stacks for Java developers: BitNami Stack for JBoss and BitNami Stack for Apache Tomcat.
These Stacks include everything you need to run any Java application on top of Apache Tomcat or JBoss. They are available as native installers, for running on locally on your machine, as virtual machine images, for running in a virtual environment, and as AMIs, for running on the Amazon Cloud. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new Java Stacks are free of charge and ready-to-run. The installers are completely self-contained and run independently of the rest… more

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

Paul Blair from InfoQ did a nice write up of deployment containers for JRuby webapps, including Glassfish, Jetty and Tomcat, in which he mentions BitNami JRubyStack: infoq.com/news/2010/04/glassfish-gem-alternatives-jruby… more