Vex.Net servers run mostly the extremely robust FreeBSD operating system (currently the 4.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