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Boston University Linux is based on Fedora Core Linux, but specifically tailored for the BU environment.

Weve added security updates, made modifications to make software work better with the way things are set up here, and added some applications that we think you might like to have.

The server edition of BU Linux provides a modern, stable, and robust server platform suitable for long-term deployment in many roles throughout the university.

Supported Hardware

Currently, only i686-class machines are supported. This includes almost everything from Intels Pentium Pro on. AMD64 and Intel EM64T systems will work fine using their 32-bit mode. Watch for a 64-bit version later this summer.

Specific Notes on Server Applications

Mail Server:

BU Linux 4.5 Server Edition (Zodiac) includes three different choices of Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for your mail server. Each of these open source servers has its unique strengths, and you can install one or more and use the utility system-switch-mail to choose which is active.

The default is IBMs Postfix, which is designed from scratch to be secure and easily configurable. On a newly-installed BU Linux machine, Postfix is configured to exchange mail on the local machine and to send mail out to other systems, but not receive mail from the network. For this reason, outgoing mail from global BU accounts (those matching valid BU login names and with the proper UID) will appear to come from @bu.edu rather than @hostname.bu.edu. Local users (including system accounts) will retain the hostname, but without reconfiguration, any replies will bounce. Changing the system to accept mail is easy; see the BU Linux web site for details.

For the maximum flexibility and for compatibility with existing configurations (and with existing expertise), we also include the traditional standard Sendmail. And, if you have particular special needs, you may find that the new Exim MTA fits your situation best.

No matter which MTA you choose, please contact us if you need any assistance. With so many options available, the situation can be confusing, and its unfortunately easy for an accidentally misconfigured system to become a target for spam relayers. We have significant expertise at configuring both Postfix and Sendmail in a variety of situations, and will be glad to help.

FTP Server:

This release of BU Linux provides two options for FTP. The first is vsftpd, which is designed to be simple and secure. This is the most appropriate for almost all situations, but if you require more power and flexibility, we also include ProFTPd, which has many more options and a configuration syntax similar to that of the Apache web server.

Please also remember that FTP is an insecure protocol and that any passwords used travel over the network in plain text. For this reason, its best to avoid anything but anonymous FTP. For user-authenticated file transfer, use SSH and SFTP. (SFTP is provided by the OpenSSH server and enabled by default.)

Web Server:

The web server software included in BU Linux is the industry-standard Apache httpd. We also include PHP 4.3 and many other useful tools for building a web server.
If you need to provide authenticated access to web services to BU users, please contact us and we will provide you with our University-standard Weblogin module. This provides a powerful and flexible means of single-signon access control for the BU user community and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to provide this for your users.

Database Server:

BU Linux includes MySQL 4.1 and PostgreSQL 7.4. For less demanding SQL applications, we also provide SQLite 3, which provides simple SQL databases without the management overhead of running a SQL server.

Java 2SE technology readily harnesses the power of the network because it is both a programming language and a selection of specialized platforms.
As such, it standardizes the development and deployment of the kind of secure, portable, reliable, and scalable applications required by the networked economy.
Because the Internet and World Wide Web play a major role in new business development, consistent and widely supported standards are critical to growth and success.
The Java programming language lets you write powerful, enterprise-worthy programs that run in the browser, from the desktop, on a server, or on a consumer device. Java programs are run on -- interpreted by -- another program called the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM).
Rather than running directly on the native operating system, the program is interpreted by the Java VM for the native operating system. This means that any computer system with the Java VM installed can run a Java program regardless of the computer system on which the application was originally developed.
The Java platform is a software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based platforms. Because hardware-based platforms vary in their storage, memory, network connection, and computing power capabilities, specialized Java platforms are available to address applications development for and deployment to those different environments.
Java technology has grown to include the portfolio of specialized platforms listed below. Each platform is based on a Java VM that has been ported to the target hardware environment. This means, for example, in the case of Desktop Java, desktop applications written in the Java programming language can run on any Java VM-enabled desktop without modification.
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), provides an environment for Core Java and Desktop Java applications development, and is the basis for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java Web Services technologies. It has the compiler, tools, runtimes, and Java APIs that let you write, test, deploy, and run applets and applications.
Enhancements:
- Olson time zone data was updated to version 2007e.
- Solaris-specific I/O interruption in response to thread interruption can now be switched off.
- Many bugs were fixed.

NoMachine NX Server Manager is the upcoming management interface for the NX Terminal Server system.
The NX Server Manager is the easy-to-use NoMachine graphical administration interface for Unix systems that allows administrators to configure, manage and monitor the NX servers across a world-wide network.
The NX Server Manager is an add-on to the NX Server Enterprise and Small Business Edition, provided at no extra cost.
The NX Server Manager sports most of the features you would expect from an enterprise-grade application, with the easiness of use of a Web interface.
NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols into X/NX.
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The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the Internet.
Enhancements:
- This release provides fixes for a number of problems: the NX Server Manager setup script looked for a nonexistant file during the install or upgrade procedure, reloading the NX statistics Web page may have failed, and NX Server Manager may have provided a misleading message when NX statistics couldnt be generated.

RIPE Whois Server provides support for domain records and lookups.

This is a whois database server. The RIPE Whois server uses a backend SQL database to allow support for very large repositories. There is support for IPv6 records and lookups. Both RPSL and RIPE181 are supported.

Xplain2sql converts files from Xplain to SQL. xplain2sql supports a very large subset of Xplain, and it can convert from Xplain to Microsoft SQL Server, DB/2, Inprise InterBase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or ANSI-92 SQL.
It can also generate an XML description of the generated SQL. This XML description can be used to create low-level middle-tier code.
A Delphi/ADO XSLT style sheet is included. The C source code release should compile on any platform with an ANSI C compiler.
There are binary releases for FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, and Windows 2000.
Xplain2sql supports a very large subset of Xplain already, and it is continually extended until full support is reached. Currently it can convert from Xplain to Microsoft SQL Server, Inprise InterBase, DB/2, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access, and ANSI-92 SQL:
- Microsoft SQL Server support is very complete.
- Quite complete DB/2 support. Non literal inits are currently missing.
- InterBase support for init works only for literal inits (so attributes dont work). And because InterBase doesnt have the concept of temporary table, the extend and value only work for a single user.
- PostgreSQL is quite complete with the new PostgreSQL 7.3 release.
- Initial, but fairly complete Oracle support.
- Generates Microsoft Access data definition commands. However, it seems impossible to run an entire script against an Access database. Having to run each create table statement by hand is quite tedious.
- Generates good ANSI-92, however inits with non-literal values cannot be supported by ANSI-92 because it doesnt have the concept of before and after insert triggers.
Enhancements:
- Assert support was added.
- If-then-else is supported in init [default] statements for dialects that support triggers.