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= Technical specifications for Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition =

This document is for Ubuntu 8.10. For other releases please visit the [[../|technical specifications overview]] page.

The minimal requirements of version 8.10 have not been modified since  version 8.04.  You can see a [[../new|summary of all changes since 8.04]]. As a regular release, 8.10 benefits of an 18 month [[http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/benefits/lifecycle|lifecycle]].   

The following is a selection of the common packages packages that are  fully maintained on Ubuntu Server Edition 8.10. 

== Kernels ==
 * Default    2.6.27-server    Tickless, No Preemption, Deadline I/O,  PAE, 100Hz    
 * JeOS    2.6.27    Stripped down kernel for Virtualization

== Web ==
 * Apache    2.2    event/prefork/worker/dev
 * Tomcat 6

== Database ==
 * MySQL 5
 * PostgreSQL    8.3

== Email ==
 * Dovecot    1.1
 * Postfix    2.5
 * Exim    4.69
 * SpamAssassin 3.2
 * ClamAV 0.94
 * amavisd-new 2.6

== Languages ==
 * PHP    5.2
 * Perl    5.10
 * Python    2.5
 * Gcc    4.3
 * Ruby 4.2

== Networking ==
 * LTSP    5.1
 * Samba    3.2
 * OpenLDAP    2.4 (cn=config)
 * OpenVPN 2.1
 * FreeRadius 1.1

== Monitoring ==
 * Munin 1.2
 * Nagios 3

== Backup ==
 * Bacula 2.4
 * BackupPC 3.1

== Package management ==
 * Aptitude    0.4
 * APT 0.7
 * Dpkg    1.14

== Security ==
 * AppArmor    2.3
 * Iptables    1.4
 * ufw 0.23

== Clustering ==
 * Ocfs 2 
 * Gfs 2
 * RH-Cluster 2
 * DRBD 8

== Virtualization ==
 * KVM 72
 * Libvirt 0.4
 * Virt-Manager 0.5

== Storage ==
 * Lvm 2
 * aoetools 26
 * openiscsi 2.0