Ubuntu Server Starter Guide Specification

1. Audience: The target audience for the Ubuntu Server Starter Guide is broad: new users and experienced users should benefit from it. However, it will focus on command line tools as the default ubuntu-server install has no graphic environment.

2. Document Outline: See the Document Outline section below.

3. Target Presentation Formats: xml, html, pdf

4. License: DocteamLicense

5. Technologies and Techniques: DocBook xml, and stored in the docteam's SubVersion repository.

6. Release Target: Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04), Apr, 2006

7. Links to Current Version: The latest version of Server Guide is available at http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html

8. How to Contribute: The best way to contribute is to send an email to the ubuntu-doc mailing list (ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com)

9. Primary Contacts: DocumentationTeam, RobertStoffers and ["Bhuvan"]

Ideas for the upcoming Ubuntu version (Feisty Fawn)

* Network Applications * Web Applications * Email and Database Applications

Document Outline

1. Preface
   1. Conventions
   2. Contribution
   3. Feedbacks
2. Introduction
3. Server Applications
   1. Network Configuration
   2. Network authentication
      • OpenLDAP Server
      • LDAP client authentication
      • How to setup NIS
   3. DNS

* BIND

Database

* MySQL 5.0 * PostgreSQL

Network Applications

* Configuration * Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) * OpenSSH Server * FTP Server * CUPS - Print Server * Time Synchronization with NTP

Web servers

* Apache2 PHP5 MySQL * Squid - Proxy Server * Ruby on Rails * Apache Tomcat 5 * Apache JBOSS

Security

* Firewall Iptables

File Server

* NFS Server * Samba Server

Version Control System

* Subversion * CVS

Mail, Groupware, and Chat Servers

* Sendmail * Qmail * PostFIX * Mailman * IrcServer * Jabber

Web Applications

* Drupal * Joomla * Moodle with MySQL * Mambo

Wiki Applications

* MoinMoin * MediaWiki

Monitoring

* Nagios2 * Zenoss * Internet Traffic Monitoring