Technical specifications for Ubuntu 10.04LTS Server Edition

This document is for Ubuntu 10.04LTS. For other releases please visit the technical specifications overview page.

Ubuntu Server Edition is meant to run on any Intel or AMD x86, AMD_64, EM_64T processor. It requires a minimum of 192Mb of RAM and 1Gb of disk space. Depending on your needs, you might manage with less than this. However, most users risk being frustrated if they ignore these suggestions.

You can see a summary of all changes since 8.04.

As a regular release, 10.04LTS benefits from a 5-year lifecycle.

The following is a selection of the common packages packages that are fully maintained on Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04LTS.

Kernels

• Default Linux 2.6.32-server Tickless, No Preemption, Deadline I/O, PAE, 100Hz

Web

• Apache 2.2 event/prefork/worker/dev
• Tomcat 6.0.24

Database

• MySQL 5.1
• PostgreSQL 8.4
• couchdb 0.10

Email

• Dovecot 1.2
• Postfix 2.7
• Exim 4.71

• SpamAssassin 3.3

• ClamAV 0.96
• amavisd-new 2.6

Languages

• PHP 5.3.2
• Perl 5.10.1
• Python 2.6.5
• Gcc 4.4.3
• Ruby 1.8.7
• Java 6 (through OpenJDK)

Networking

• LTSP 5.2
• Samba 3.4
• OpenLDAP 2.4 (cn=config)
• OpenVPN 2.1

• FreeRadius 2.1

Monitoring

• Munin 1.4
• Nagios 3.2

Backup

• Bacula 5.0
• BackupPC 3.1

Package management

• Aptitude 0.4
• APT 0.7
• Dpkg 1.15

Security

• AppArmor 2.5

• Iptables 1.4
• ufw 0.30

Clustering

• Ocfs 2
• Gfs 2
• RH-Cluster 3
• DRBD 8

Virtualization

• KVM 84
• Libvirt 0.7

Storage

• Lvm 2
• aoetools 26
• openiscsi 2.0

Power Management

• Nut 2.4
• pwrkap 7.3
• powernap 1.9

Configuration management

• puppet 0.25
• etckeeper 0.41

Cloud computing

• eucalyptus 1.6.2
• euca2ools 1.2
• cloud-utils 0.11