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Open Source (O'Reilly 1999)
Open Source Tools for Web Development
| Software | Description | We Got Ours From | Comments |
| Linux | Operating system | www.mandrake.com | Excellent for servers; useful as a developer’s desktop OS. |
| EGCS/GCS | C, C++, Objective-C, FORTRAN, Java compiler | www.gnu.org | Included in Linux distributions. |
| Apache | Web server | www.apache.org | If you haven’t tried it, you should. |
| Samba | Windows/Unix/Mac interoperability suite | www.samba.org | Allows Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows users to transparently mount each others’ file systems. |
| Perl | Script/text processing | www.cpan.org | A language. A way of life. No cure is known. |
| MySQL | SQL database | download.sourceforge.net /mirrors/mysql |
Lean and fast. APIs for most languages available. |
| Xerces | XML parser | xml.apache.org | Supports XML Schema, DOM Level 2 and SAX Version 2. |
| Xalan | XLST processor | xml.apache.org | Transforms SML documents via XSL to other forms of XML, HTML and so on. |
| FOP | XML/DOM/SAX-to-PDF processor | xml.apache.org | Driven by XSL formatting objects. |
| Cocoon | Web publishing framework | xml.apache.org | Ties XML and database content together for presentation via XML, PDF, HTML. Implements XSP, an alternative to Active Server Pages and Java Server Pages. |
