I just downloaded the Bitnami stack instead of going through the login process. Bitnami seems to have added some bloat to themselves, however: they used to provide you with a straight VM image; now they have an installer and what seems to be a self-contained VM. The cynical part of me assumes that something in this stack is phoning home and perhaps making me part of some evil botnet, but hopefully not ;).
While signing up is mentioned several times on their page it doesn't seem to be required in any way to run your own version. I hope the broken download is just a bug. Signing up just so you can download the package would be pretty annoying.
Oh, I just figured that sign-up was required from reading the copy:
> Open Signup on Ghost.org
The most important piece of news, of course, is that Ghost.org is now open for signups from everybody. Get over there, create your account, grab your username, download Ghost, and check out the forums.
