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In addition to writing much of our own software, we use the efforts of many great software developers, and would like to recognize their products here. These are all fantastic products and we would be happy to talk about how we have implemented them to any interested parties.

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CentOS Linux

CentOS Linux is a powerful, extremely stable, next-generation computer operating system that provides a high performance computing environment for both server and desktop PCs.

Apache Webserver

Apache is an award-winning webserver that made this site possible.

MySQL DBMS

MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular and standardized database language in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs and libraries.

PHP

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.

SourceForge Alexandria

SourceForge Alexandria is an open-source version of the SourceForge system and provides Web-based project management to software developers.

Exim Internet Mailer

Exim Internet Mailer is a highly modular substitute for Sendmail.

pmWiki

pmWiki is a simple-to-install system that allows password protection and organization of pages into groups.

Mailman

MailMan is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page, and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the web.

Subversion

Subversion is the more modern version control system that we use for development projects.

WebSVN allows easy viewing of live Subversion repositories.

CVS

CVS is the older version control system for development projects.

CVSWeb is a CGI program to allow easy viewing of live CVS repositories.

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a program that allows you to open an encrypted connection to another computer. It allows remote execution of command and copying of files from one machine to another.

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