THIS DOCUMENT CONTINUES TO BE A WORK IN PROGRESS - 17Jan2011

Technical specifications for Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition

This document is for Ubuntu 10.10. 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.

The following is a selection of the common packages packages that are fully maintained on Ubuntu Server Edition 10.10.

Kernels

• Default Linux 2.6.35-server (Tickless, No Preemption, Deadline I/O, PAE, 100Hz)

Web

• Apache 2.2.16 (event/prefork/worker/dev)
• Tomcat 6.0.28

Database

• MySQL 5.1.49
• PostgreSQL 8.4.7
• couchdb 1.0.1

Email

• Dovecot 1.2.12
• Postfix 2.7.1
• Exim 4.72

• SpamAssassin 3.3.1

• ClamAV 0.96.3 (0.96.5 in updates)
• amavisd-new 2.6.4

Languages

• PHP 5.3.3
• Perl 5.10.1
• Python 2.6.6 / 3.1.3
• GCC 4.4.4
• Ruby 1.8.7.299 / 1.9.2.0
• Java 6 (OpenJDK Build b20)

Networking

• LTSP 5.2.4
• Samba 3.5.4
• OpenLDAP 2.4.23 (cn=config)
• OpenVPN 2.1.0

• FreeRadius 2.1.9

Monitoring

• Munin 1.4.5
• Nagios 3.2.1

Backup

• Bacula 5.0.2
• BackupPC 3.1.0

Package management

• Aptitude 0.6.3
• APT 0.8.3
• Dpkg 1.15.8.4

Security

• AppArmor 2.5.1

• Iptables 1.4.4
• ufw 0.30.0

Clustering

• OCFS 2
• GFS 2
• Red Hat Cluster Suite 3
• DRBD 8.3.8.1

Virtualization

• KVM 84
• Libvirt 0.8.3

Storage

• LVM 2.02.54
• aoetools 30
• Open-iSCSI 2.0.871

Power Management

• Nut 2.4.3
• pwrkap 7.30
• powernap 1.10

Configuration management

• Puppet 0.25 2.6.1
• etckeeper 0.48

Cloud computing

• eucalyptus 2.0
• euca2ools 1.2
• cloud-utils 0.16