Turbolinux 8 Server is a high performance operating system that offers the strength and quality of an enterprise class OS but is specially priced for your mid-range business computing needs. It's a natural fit for running open source software applications such as Apache, Samba or PostgreSQL as well as standard business applications, databases, etc. Any applications developed on Turbolinux 8 Server will work on UnitedLinux-based products.
Main Components
kernel 2.4.18 / glibc 2.2.5 / XFree86 4.2.0 / gcc 2.96 (and 2.95.3 and 3.2) / rpm 4.0.2
Turbolinux 8 Server provides reliability, availability and scalability with Enterprise features such as:
- Turbolinux' high performance tuned kernel
- Hyper-threading support
- readv support of raw devices and writev mounting to increase database performance
- Asynchronous I/O support for improved throughput
- Optimized O(1) scheduler and file system
- CPU affinity
- Journaling file systems for high efficiency and high availability (Ext3, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS)
- PXE support
- LKCD (Linux Kernel Crush Dump) provides problem analysis
- LVM (Logical Volume Manager) and EVMS (the Enterprise Volume Management System) support
- Evlog (Linux Event Logging) mounting support
- Select one of three different versions of gcc.
- Support for Ultra320 SCSI (Adaptec Ultra320 AIC7902, LSI 53C1030 etc), Broadcom, and Intel Gigabit Ethernet cards
- Support for Intel 845e/845g, SiS650/651, and Xeon chipsets such as GC LE/HE and Intel e7500/i860
Support for secure systems
- Support for IPSec (IP Security Protocol) encryption, a secure VPN system
- Support for SMTP over SSL
- Support for SNMP v3
- Bastille security tools
- 128-bit SSL library
- Webmin, a web based server configuration and management tool
Includes PostgreSQL and proftpd modules, prevents remote access by default.
- Root password required to access the edit mode of GRUB by default
- Kerberos authentication
- Boots with minimal services running by default
Turbolinux Mongoose installer
- Ability to auto-detect large number of server hardware components
- Select any file system to create software RAID, LVM or evms
- Install from CD-ROM drive connected by USB or IEEE1394 protocols
- Kernel auto detection - installing on a machine with over 4GB of memory and a hyper-threading supported CPU, Mongoose will automatically select SMP64G or SMP kernels
- TFDisk - Graphical partitioning tool. Software RAID (0, 1, 5), LVM, evms
- Choice of security levels – Choose only the services you want to run. The default being “most secure”
Package List
| WWW server |
Apache-1.3.26 |
| Apache principal module |
Mod_ssl-2.8.10/mod_perl-1.26/mod_dav-1.0.3 |
| DNS server |
Bind-9.2.1 |
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| Mail server |
Sendmail-8.12.6 (SMTP Auth correspondence)
IMAP-2002.RC2 (SSL/APOP correspondence) |
| FTP server |
Proftpd-1.2.5 |
| PROXY server |
Squid-2.4.STABLE6 |
| Super server |
Xinetd-2.3.7 |
| Access control |
Iptables-1.2.5/ipchains-1.3.9/tcp_wrappers-7.6 |
| NIS server |
Ypserv-1.3.11 |
| NFS service |
Nfs-utils-0.3.1 |
| DHCP service |
dhcp-3.0pl1 |
| SMB service |
Samba-2.2.4/2.2.5 |
| LDAP service |
Openldap-2.0.25 |
| AppleTalk service |
netatalk-1.5.3.1 |
| SNMP service |
Net-snmp-5.0.3 |
| NTP service |
Xntp3-server-5.93 |
| SQL DB engine |
Postgresql-7.2.2/MySQL-3.23.52 |
| Perl scripting language |
Perl-5.6.1 |
| PHP scripting language |
Php-4.2.3 |
| Python scripting language |
Python-2.2.1 |
| Secure shell |
Openssh-3.4p1 / openssl-0.9.6g |
| Streaming server |
Icecast-1.3.12 |
| RADIUS server |
Radiusd-cistron-1.6.3stable |
| Web application server |
Zope-2.5.1 |
| Java Servlet application server |
Tomcat 4-4.0.4 |
| XML application engine |
Cocoon-2.0.2 |
Hardware requirements
| PC/AT |
Compatible hardware |
| CPU |
Intel 32-bit x86 CPU or compatible (Pentium recommended) |
| Memory |
64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended) |
| Hard Drive |
IDE/SCSI HDD (2GB recommended) |
| Video Card |
IBM VGA compatible display adapter (PCI/AGP SVGA card recommended) |
| Misc |
3.5" floppy drive, CD-ROM drive (ATAPI/SCSI), Ethernet card |
Support
- Turbolinux 8 Server includes 30 day, five incident OS installation e-mail support.
- Turbolinux will support 8 Server through year 2008 (security, patches, etc).
- English Inst
allation Guide is included in HTML located on the Companion CD
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