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<<Apache 3%
Apache HTTP Server, product of the Apache Software Foundation is a free software/open source web server for Unix-like systems, Windows, Novell NetWare and other platforms. Apache is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web , and continues to be the most popular web server in use, serving as the de facto reference platform against which other web servers are designed and judged. Apache is primarily used to serve static and dynamic content on the World Wide Web. Many web applications are designed expecting the environment and features that Apache provides. Apache is the web server component of the popular LAMP web server application stack, alongside Linux, MySQL, and the PHP / Perl / Python programming languages.
<<ClamAV 3%
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), is a widely used free antivirus software toolkit for Unix -like operating systems. It is mainly used with a mail exchange server as a server-side email virus scanner. ClamAV is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge. ClamAV is generally configured to automatically update its list of virus definitions via the Internet (see : http://www.clamav.net ).
<<LAMP 3%
The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software programs, commonly open-source programs, used together to run dynamic Web sites on servers. The original combination of these technologies is as follows: Linux , referring to the operating system ; Apache , the Web server ; MySQL , the database management system (or database server) ; PHP , the programming language. More recently, the P has come to refer frequently to Perl or Python as alternate programming languages. At all2all, standard LAMP systems also feature PostgreSQL as alternative database.
<<Linux 3%
Linux is a Unix -like computer operating system family. Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open source development; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely. After the Linux kernel was released to the public on 17 September 1991 by Linus Torvald , the first Linux systems were completed by combining the kernel with system utilities and libraries from the GNU project, which led to the coining of the term GNU/Linux. all2all is using Debian GNU/Linux as basic operating system on all his server systems.
<<MySQL 3%
MySQL Community Server is a cross-platform relational SQL database server . MySQL is a multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database management system using a modular engine architecture. It is fast and rock-solid and one of the most widely used SQL engine. Both the MySQL server software itself and the client libraries are distributed under a dual-licensing format. MySQL Server is available as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL), but the MySQL Enterprise subscription is also offering a traditional proprietary licensing arrangements for cases where the intended use is incompatible with the GPL. MySQL is a key element of the LAMP ( Linux , Apache , MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python ) open source software architecture for professionnals.
<<Open Source 23%
Open source software is computer software whose source code is available under a license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form as defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI was formed in February 1998 by Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens in order to present the 'open source' case to commercial businesses, like Netscape. The OSI hoped that the usage of the label "open source" would eliminate the ambiguity of the word "free" in English, particularly for individuals who perceive "free software" as anti-commercial.
<<PGP 3%
PGP Encryption (Pretty Good Privacy) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. It is based on asymetric encryption (one public key + one private key) and was originally created by Philip Zimmermann in 1991. Shortly after its release, PGP encryption found its way outside the US, and in February 1993 Zimmermann became the formal target of a criminal investigation by the US Government for violating the export regulations. Since the end of the 90's, PGP encryption no longer meets the definition of a non-exportable weapon and can be exported internationally except to 7 specific countries.PGP and other similar products follow the OpenPGP standard for encrypting and decrypting data. To encrypt your messages, we advise you to use either GnuPG (for MacOS and Linux ) or WinPT (for Windows).
<<Postfix 3%
Postfix is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program used on servers for the routing and delivery of e-mail. It is intended as a fast, easy-to-administer, and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail MTA. Postfix is the default MTA for a number of Unix(-like) operating systems. It is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software licence. One of the strengths of Postfix is its resilience against buffer overflows. Another one is its handling of large amounts of e-mail and advanced content filtering against spams (see : http://www.postfix.org ).
<<Python 3%
The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia for a wide variety of purposes. Its strengths for teaching include its syntactic simplicity, flexible typing, and interactive interpreter. Python uses fewer symbols than languages like Java and C. Plone is a user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System , derived from the Zope application server which is relying on Python.
<<RealMedia 3%
RealMedia is a multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. Its extension is ".rm". It is typically used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio and is popular for streaming content over the Internet. Typically these streams are in CBR (constant bit rate). Recently RealNetworks has developed a new container for VBR (variable bit rate) streams, named RealMedia variable bitrate (RMVB). Support of RealMedia is available in a wide variety of multimedia players for different architectures/platforms, including RealPlayer. Launched in 2002, the Helix initiative includes plan to release substantial parts of proprietary technologies under an open source licence. RealNetworks also announced partnership with Xiph.org to support the free software Ogg Vorbis audio codec. The code is released under various licenses, like the RealNetworks Public Source License starting in 2003 and the GPL in 2004. Not all of the source code is licensed under one of the free software licences, for example the codecs (see : https://helixcommunity.org ).
<<Ruby on Rails 3%
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework, released in 2004, that aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails, or RoR, Ruby On Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language and applications using the Rails framework are developed using the Model-View-Controller design pattern. The official web site is : http://www.rubyonrails.org/
<<Subversion 3%
Subversion is a revision control system which allows computer software and other electronic works to be developed in an incremental and controlled fashion. Subversion is a collaborative tool that allows different software developpers to work on the same piece of code at the same time. Also commonly referred to as svn or SVN, Subversion is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS. Subversion is open source software created by CollabNet, who still maintain the project.
<<VideoLAN 3%
VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats. Originally comprising of two programs — VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS), the two have now been incorporated into the VideoLAN Client, which is now known as VLC media player. The project began as a student endeavour at École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/ open source GNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations. The project also develops several audio/video decoding and decryption libraries for various type of media standards such as CSS protected DVDs, MPEG-4, DTS audio... (see : http://www.videolan.org/ ).
<<Webmin 6%
Webmin is a easy-to-use system configuration tool for Unix-like systems. It has a web-based graphical user interface for managing web server systems. Webmin is largely based on Perl, and is running as its own process, and web server. It usually uses TCP port 10000 for communicating, and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed. It is built around modules, which have an interface to the config files, and an interface to the webmin server. This makes it easy to add new functionality, without too much work. Webmin offers a unique web interface to control a large variety of server applications ( Apache , Postfix , FTP , MySQL , PostgreSQL , BIND , SSH , etc.). Webmin enables the server administrator to easily manage all the users accounts, quotas, repositories, groups and rights. He can access the log files and stop or reboot the system. Due to Webmin's modular design, it would be possible, for anyone who is interested, to write plugins for desktop configuration. Webmin is an open source software released under the BSD license. The two major modules extending the functionality of Webmin are Usermin , designed for general usage tasks, and Virtualmin , which is for giving users visual means of administering web hosting accounts (see : http://www.webmin.com ).
<<XML 6%
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C -recommended general-purpose markup language. XML is considered "general-purpose" because it enables anyone to originate and use a markup language for many types of applications and problem domains. Numerous formally defined markup languages are based on XML, such as RSS , XHTML , SVG, XSLT and thousands of others. Specific to XML is the use of angle-brackets to identify data and metadata (elements and attributes). By leaving the names, allowable hierarchy, and meanings of the elements and attributes open and definable by a customizable schema, XML provides a syntactic foundation for the creation of custom, XML-based markup languages. In this way, XML contrasts with HTML, which has an inflexible, single-purpose vocabulary of elements and attributes that, in general, cannot be repurposed. XML is an open, fee-free standard.
