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Overview

Information regarding Vex.Net's software and servers.

Note: A generated list of most installed packages is available at this link.

Vex.Net servers run mostly the extremely robust FreeBSD operating system (currently the 6.x stable branch), with some things on the extremely flexible NetBSD.

Below is a general list of the software we use (we usually have the latest reslease versions). You can also check out the up-to-date generated list to see exactly what we have on the web server.

Network Servers

  • Apache Web Server (with mod_ssl and mod_php4)
  • Dovecot IMAP/POP3
  • Postfix SMTP
  • ProFTPd server

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • gdbm
  • Sleepycat db
  • SqLite

Languages

  • Python
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • PHP 4
  • Compilers: C, C++, Java
  • Others: Tcl, Forth, Basic, smalltalk, Intercal

Shell Tools

  • shells: sh, csh, pdksh, bash, tcsh, zsh, es
  • CVS and RCS
  • Archivers: zip, unrar, gzip, bzip2
  • Screen
  • IRC clients
  • Mail and news clients: pine, elm, mutt, slrn, tin, trn
  • Lynx, w3m, links
  • DNSWalk, dlint, nslookup and other DNS tools
  • Editors: vi, emacs, joe, vim, pico/nano
  • wget, curl, ncftp
  • Giftrans, netpbm, jpeg utils
  • Vacation
  • Procmail
  • Ispell, Aspell
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