free and open-source software used in the production of this site

The production of Crystallography Journals Online depends on the use of several free and open-source software packages. The main ones used are listed below.

spacer Apache (www.apache.org)
The HTTP server software.
spacer GNU software (www.gnu.org)
Various pieces of GNU software including GIMP and ghostscript.
spacer ImageMagick (www.imagemagick.org)
Very powerful and high quality graphics-manipulation suite.
spacer MySQL (www.mysql.com)
A very quick relational database from Michael `Monty' Widenius at TcX.
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Perl (www.perl.org)
Larry Wall's fantastic multi-purpose scripting language.
spacer RedHat Linux (www.redhat.com)
A great operating system.
Rsync
 
Rsync (rsync.samba.org)
 
Samba
 
Samba (www.samba.org)
 
spacer Sendmail (www.sendmail.org)
The ubiquitous high-volume mail-transfer agent.
spacer Postfix (www.postfix.org)
Fast, easy to administer, and secure, sendmail compatible mail-transfer agent.
SP
 
SP (www.jclark.com)
James Clark's SGML parser.
spacer SWISH-E (www.swish-e.com)
A fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use indexing engine.
spacer TCL (www.scriptics.com)
John K. Ousterhout's powerful, quick and easy-to-use scripting language.
TeX and LaTeX
 
TeX and LaTeX (www.ctan.org)
Donald Knuth's typesetting language and Leslie Lamport's extension of it.

For a directory of free software visit the Free Software Foundation free software directory. An extensive archive of open-source software can be found at www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/!INDEX.html.


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