SocialText Open VM Released

March 29th, 2007
by Jeremy Thomas

SocialText has released SocialText Open pre-installed on a Virtual Machine.  Checkout the download page here, and Social Text’s release here.  I’m currently downloading the 460MB VM.

This is a great move for SocialText as their opensource version is difficult to install on its own.  The Virtual Machine will certainly make it easier to evaluate SocialText Open or even use it for small groups and projects.

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2 Responses to “SocialText Open VM Released”

  1. A propietary wiki skeptic Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 8:03 am

    “460MB VM”?!?!?!?

    That’s amazing. Mediawiki and tikiwiki are both easy to install. Drupal_wiki and jamwiki are also tolerable. Drupal_wiki and jamwiki both support the mediawiki format. So does getwiki which Wikinfo.org uses. This just looks like socialtext isn’t very competent at coding or packaging. That plus its own proprietary data format makes it pretty much useless.

    I can’t see a single reason to ever recommend anyone download a 460MB VM or attempt a quite difficult install: “install apache-perl, install PostgreSQL,
    install CPAN dependencies, install Socialtext” just so they can use a proprietary data format which has no open content in it.

    Why wouldn’t you just use drupal_wiki, jamwiki or mediawiki itself?

  2. Jeremy Thomas Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 8:27 am

    I agree that SocialText Open is difficult to install, and that’s why I think the VM option is a good one for now.

    Keep in mind that the majority of the size of the VM is related to the OS, not SocialText itself. In fact I’d say 460MB is very small for a VM image as it’s not uncommon to see them sized to a couple of GB or more.

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