software used in the production of this site

The production of IUCr Journals depends on the use of several free and open-source software packages. The main ones used are listed below.

	Apache (http://www.apache.org/) The HTTP server software.
	GNU software (http://www.gnu.org/) Various pieces of GNU software including GIMP and ghostscript.
	ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) Very powerful and high quality graphics-manipulation suite.
	MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) A very quick relational database.
	Perl (http://www.perl.org) Larry Wall's fantastic multi-purpose scripting language.
	RedHat Linux (http://www.redhat.com) A great operating system.
	Rsync (http://rsync.samba.org)
	Samba (http://www.samba.org)
	Sendmail (http://www.sendmail.org/) The ubiquitous high-volume mail-transfer agent.
	Postfix (http://www.postfix.org) Fast, easy to administer, and secure, sendmail compatible mail-transfer agent.
	SWISH-E (http://www.swish-e.com/) A fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use indexing engine.
	TCL (http://www.scriptics.com) John K. Ousterhout's powerful, quick and easy-to-use scripting language.
	TeX and LaTeX (http://www.ctan.org) Donald Knuth's typesetting language and Leslie Lamport's extension of it.