Of the 300+ preinstalled software packages, here is a list of
the main services and highlights:
| Designation |
Description |
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Operating System
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Derived from and compatible with FreeBSD 4.11 (the mature
production release*), refined with
handpicked enhancements and fixes from both the official 4-STABLE
branch and our own development efforts
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Apache
plus:
mod_access_referer
mod_auth_mysql
mod_auth_pam
mod_fastcgi
mod_gzip
mod_jk
mod_layout
mod_perl
mod_php3
mod_php4 + eAccelerator
mod_php5 + eAccelerator
mod_put
mod_python
mod_text2html
mod_ticket
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Webserver with web accelerator (Squid) and SSL
|
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Tomcat 3, 4 & 5
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Java Servlet & JSP container
|
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Htdig
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Web page indexing and search engine
|
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Count.cgi
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Web counter CGI
|
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Webalizer
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Webserver logfile statistics generator
|
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Checkbot
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Web link verifier
|
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Lynx
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Non-graphical, text-based WWW client with SSL
|
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Snownews
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Text mode RSS newsreader client with plugin support for other
feed formats
|
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Exim
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Mailer daemon with mailing list support, SMTP-Auth and SSL
|
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Procmail
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Email filter and spam elimination utility
|
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SpamAssassin
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Sophisticated spam filtering suite, featuring local per user Bayes
filters (self-learning) as well as RBL (IP address based), Razor2
& DCC (fingerprint based) and SURBL (URI based) network lookups
|
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Cyrus IMAP
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IMAP4/POP3 mailfolder subsystem with IMAP-Idle (Push Email) and SSL
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SquirrelMail
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IMAP4 capable webmail
|
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Mutt
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IMAP4 + SSL capable email client
|
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INN
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News server with user authentication and SSL
|
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Slrn
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NNTP/NOV + SSL capable newsreader client
|
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Centericq
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Instant messaging client, supporting ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC
and Jabber (+SSL)
|
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SmsSend
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SMS client with updatable provider scripts
|
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MySQL
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Lightweight SQL database
|
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PostgreSQL
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Advanced SQL database
|
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Bind
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Domain name server
|
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Stunnel
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Data channel encryption daemon (SSL)
|
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OpenSSH
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Remote login suite with encryption
|
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Mindterm
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Java SSH applet (runs in remote web browser)
|
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Screen
|
Multi-screen window manager
|
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Midnight Commander
|
Norton Commander like file management utility
|
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PGP & GnuPG
|
Public-key encryption
|
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Mcrypt
|
Data encryption utility
|
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Rsync
|
Remote file synchronization utility
|
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Network debugging
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mtr, fping, echoping
|
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Programming languages
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C, C++, Java (JDK 1.3.1, 1.4.2 & 1.5.0)
|
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Script languages
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Perl, Eperl, Python, Ruby
|
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Development tools
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Subversion, CVS, RCS, diff, patch, gdb, truss, strace, top
|
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Command line shells
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sh, csh, tcsh, bash
|
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Text editors
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vi, vim, ee, joe, pico
|
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Image processing
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ImageMagick, netpbm, jpeg, png, tiff
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A complete list, including the current version
numbers, is available in the
test-drive boxes.
As to our software upgrade strategy, please note that when it comes to
deciding on new revisions we deliberately strike a balance between
bleeding edge and maturity on a case-by-case basis, for a maximum of
dependability. That is, while we put a lot of effort into staying
up-to-date, in order to avert harm from our customers we do not blindly
upgrade on the simplistic assumption that higher version numbers must
be better on principle.
For additional software there is the
FreeBSD Ports Collection
where you can get thousands of precompiled, easy-to-install packages.
*
In the interest of service reliability we are going to consider newer
FreeBSD versions when the ongoing major kernel redesign work in these
branches, especially in the Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) area, has
come to a close and stability has started to meet our requirements.
For the time being, in order to keep our customers happy we stick to
trusty 4-STABLE and watch how things develop. Applications ported to
FreeBSD, like the preinstalled software packages, are OS revision
independent and are therefore not affected by this policy.
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Our base machines where the server boxes run on are multi-processor
systems equipped with 1+ GHz Intel CPUs, at least 2 GB of ECC-protected
RAM, RAID5 disk controllers and several hundred GB of disk space each.
They are located in well-run data centers with
redundant Internet backbone connectivity via Telefonica (1 Gbit/s),
Level3 (1 Gbit/s) and others, and are constantly being monitored by our
own server health checking facilities in order to provide our customers
with the best performance and reliability possible.
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