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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.

TigerEvents is a novel, Web-based event announcement system for promoting upcoming and ongoing events to large communities such as university campuses, companies, or the general public.
Enhancements:
- This release has several bugfixes and enhancements.
- New to this release is the exporting of several calendar formats, including iCal, hCal, and being able to import events into Google Calendar.

Jabber is an instant messagings system (and a few other things but Ill forget about these for the moment), but it uses XML so its easy to create clients for it, and to link it in with other systems.

As well as that anyone can run a Jabber server, so youre school, university or office could have their own messaging system.

MWSpeaker project is the worst speech synthesis software ever.

You provide a phrase, and MWSpeaker looks up each word in Merriam-Websters online dictionary, downloads the corresponding pronounciations, and plays them in sequence.

M-W Speaker takes a phrase (no punctuation please), takes each work, looks it up on the Meriam Webster website, downloads the sound file, and then, once it has sound files for each word in the phrase, plays them all back to back.

The result is something that resembles the sentence with any proper names and words not considered proper english words removed. This process is pretty slow since each word has to be looked up and the sound file downloaded by hey :)

This is mostly just for fun. I see no practical use for this whatsoever.

Its written in Python.

ambergriss goal is to provide a simple Ruby solution to two-way sync appointments and contacts between Evolution and Kolab2 for offline work.

Here is a description of the ambergris directory structure:

ext/ contains native ruby Evolution interface code
lib/ contains the ambergris library code in ruby
misc/ basically contains old code that is not use anymore
test/ contains unit tests for ambergris

Here is a description of the most important ruby files contained in ambergris:

evolution.rb ruby part of the evolution ruby interface
pim.rb general PIM classes to represent appointments and Contacts
kolab.rb code to retrieve and store PIM data via IMAP on a kolab2 server
wallet.rb simple account/password management
sync.rb general syncing mechanism for PIM objects

mod_ometer is a web counter implemented as an apache C module. mod_ometer Apache module uses gd 2.0.28 or later to generate its images. Gd has some built-in fonts, but for real excitement you can use any TrueType font you want for the counter.
In addition to allowing font choice, mod_ometer has all sorts of options for customizing size, width and color of your counter as well as the ability to output the counter as jpeg, png, or gif.
Main features:
- ignore: ip address or domain name is forbidden to increment the counter.
- font: use a truetype font instead of the counters default.
- width: how many digits are displayed, maximum of 10.
- rand: display a different random number everytime.
- reset: reset the counter to a specific value.
- text: set font color using the "web color" scheme.
- bgcolor: set background color using the "web color" scheme.
- point: set point size of the counter font.
- image: choose jpeg, png or gif.

The Program Database Toolkit (PDT) is a powerful tool infrastructure that provides access to the high-level interface of source code for analysis tools and applications.
Many tasks in an integrated programming environment require access to program information for their implementation. Program Database Toolkit (PDT) is a framework for analyzing source code written in several programming languages and for making rich program knowledge accessible to developers of static and dynamic analysis tools.
PDT implements a standard program representation, the program database (PDB), that can be accessed in a uniform way through a class library supporting common PDB operations. Software tools can use this library to accomplish tasks such as
- documentation of program components
- creation of graphic program browsers that show class hierarchies, function call graphs, and template instantiations
- insertion of instrumentation for performance profiling and tracing; andgeneration of interface details for calling library routines or buildinginterlanguage bindings.
Enhancements:
- Assorted minor bugfixes.