It’s time to select the winners for the annual Open Source CMS Awards. The list has already been narrowed down to 20 finalists and you have until 20th Oct to vote for your favorite Content Management Solution. BitNami makes it easy to give the top-voted CMS systems a try by providing the apps listed below in self-contained installers.

Drupal: Finalist for Overall Open Source CMS Award and Best PHP Open Source CMS.

Joomla!: Finalist for Overall Open Source CMS Award and Best PHP Open Source CMS.

eZ Publish: Finalist Best PHP Open… more

BitNami Modules for PHP were released some time ago, but a lot of BitNami users still don’t know about them and the wide range of possibilities they offer to have a custom installation. This article will explain the difference and why you may want to consider using BitNami Modules instead of the stand-alone Stacks.
The BitNami Project started with what we call Stacks, which are ready-to run packages of popular open source web applications. Because the packages contain everything you need in order to run an application, even non-technical users can have the software installed and running in just… more

We are glad to announce the availability of the beta version of a tool that will make working with open source web applications and servers even easier than it was before.

The BitNami Control Panel is a (very) simple graphical interface that can start and stop the BitNami servers that are located in the same installation directory.

Take into account that this is a beta version, and currently only available for OS X users. It is included in the new MAMPStack and MAPPStack versions that have been released today. To start the utility, double click the… more

CMSTester is a website for comparing CMS solutions that reviews and describes many of the software packages you can download from BitNami. They recently discovered our website. Highly recommended!
BitNami is being used in numerous commercial settings, such as for creating customized image-processing websites and installing Fogbugz bug tracking system.
Our Ruby on Rails stack gets mentioned in a InfoQ overview and the Building Browser Games introductory tutorial.
Our PostgreSQL web stack announcement was picked up by numerous sites, including Postgres Weekly News, which is really nice!.
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If you’re not already familiar with BitNami, the aim of the project is to help spread the adoption of open source software by making it easier than ever to install and configure. Whether you’re an experienced techie or a total newbie, you’ll be able to get open source applications installed in just minutes with our easy to use installers. Still not convinced? Read on for 5 reasons BitNami will make your life easier.

Anu Sonia over at Packt publishing was kind enough to provide us with a review copy of Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets
This book is a practical guide for a Liferay administrator providing step-by-step instructions on how to use the most important Liferay features such as user management, roles, blogs, wikis, communities, themes, and so on. It contains numerous examples and straightforward explanations which will be very helpful for beginners. The book follows a well defined structure that makes it easy to find the information that you are searching for.
Although the book explains how to deploy Liferay… more

The last couple of weeks have been very busy ones here at BitNami. Not only did we update a bunch of already supported applications, such as WordPress, Joomla!, phpBB and Drupal, but we have created three new infrastructure stacks around PHP and PostgreSQL with (L|W|M)APPStack and added a new application to our ecosystem with BitNami JasperServer Stack.

Today, we are pleased to announce a SugarCRM Stack, which will join our growing stacks collection. As it is one of the most voted stacks in the poll, we think… more

We have put a lot of effort in building BitNami from the ground up, and it is a great satisfaction learning that it is useful to others.
We got mentioned in the past in LifeHacker and it seems the editors continue to use our MediaWiki stack themselves
Mike Gunderloy over at OSTATIC reported on our modularization efforts as did John Conroy at CMSWire . Ross McKillop created a detailed step-by-step guide complete with screenshots on how to install WordPress on Vista and Mike Jennings comments on his experience getting started with BitNami
Users at RealSoftware forums discovered… more

We are happy to announce the release of a new set of Infrastructure Stacks: LAPPStack, MAPPStack and WAPPStack. These stacks provide an easy to install distribution of Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP and supporting libraries. The user-friendly installer allows users to quickly install and configure a PHP-PostgreSQL platform on Linux, Windows and OS X.

At BitNami, we always try to provide you with top open source applications that can be useful for you. In this case, we’re glad to announce the release of the BitNami JasperServer Stack, which bundles JasperSoft’s JasperServer (http://www.jaspersoft.com/JasperSoft_JasperServer.html) and its needed dependencies (Apache Tomcat, Java and MySQL) in yet another easy to use installer for Windows, Linux and OS X.

JasperServer is one of the most popular open source applications to create and interact with reports. Quoting from their website,