BlueOnyx is a Linux distribution (based on CentOS v5.3) which aims at delivering a turnkey server appliance for webhosting. It comes with a web based GUI interface which allows you (and your email, FTP and webhosting clients!) to manage most aspects of the server, its sites and accounts through a browser based interface. It is open source software, released under a Sun modified BSD license.

It's features include:

* It is what BlueQuartz could have been in 2007 had development not stagnated.
* It is "BlueQuartz" on CentOS 5.3 and then some.
* Has all BlueQuartz updates that accumulated between 2007 and 2009, which never got released or delayed for years.
* Has previously commercial add ons pre-installed, including ...
* Brute Force Login detection and prevention mechanisms (pam_abl)
* phpMyAdmin
* Web based Email
* GUI to automatically create and remove MySQL users and databases for sites.
* Subdomain management
* Better PHP security management on a per site basis.
* New default skin for the GUI.
* Working vacation messages.
* Updated Dovecot and ProFTPd.
* JSP support already built in with an improved GUI.
* YUM updates are delivered through various mirrors right from the start.
* Is still available free of charge and released under Sun modified BDS license.
* Comes with PHP5 and MySQL5 preinstalled.
* GUI to modify SSHd settings (root access, port, protocols)
* GUI available in English, German, Danish and Japanese.

Migrating from BlueQuartz to BlueOnyx (and back) is possible through the included CMU (Cobalt Migration Utility).