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.
Apache (www.apache.org) The HTTP server software. |
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GNU software (www.gnu.org) Various pieces of GNU software including GIMP and ghostscript. |
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ImageMagick (www.imagemagick.org) Very powerful and high quality graphics-manipulation suite. |
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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. |
RedHat Linux (www.redhat.com) A great operating system. |
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Rsync |
Rsync (rsync.samba.org) |
Samba |
Samba (www.samba.org) |
Sendmail (www.sendmail.org) The ubiquitous high-volume mail-transfer agent. |
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Postfix (www.postfix.org) Fast, easy to administer, and secure, sendmail compatible mail-transfer agent. |
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SP |
SP (www.jclark.com)
James Clark's SGML parser. |
SWISH-E (www.swish-e.com) A fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use indexing engine. |
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TCL (www.scriptics.com) John K. Ousterhout's powerful, quick and easy-to-use scripting language. |
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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.