... to all these Free Software projects without which we would have had a hard time to build our platform. This section is dedicated to all these projects, and gives them due credit for their contribution.

GNU/Linux

Our servers are mostly running under the GNU/Linux operating system. We won't provide a link, there are too many Linux pages out there.

FreeBSD

You may wonder why use a FreeBSD operating system when you already run GNU/Linux. Simply put, for security reasons. Not because GNU/Linux distributions are specially insecure, but because of the precaution principle: putting two different systems in a row to control an access means that any failing of one might be caught by another.

Apache

As a majority of the sites out there on the WWW, we use Apache to run our web servers, both internally and externally.

Perl

Some parts of the WWW sites run using Perl scripts. Perl is a wildly succesful scripting language, and typically runs as a module to Apache.

PHP

Another scripting language used to generate our WWW pages, PHP makes up the majority of the pages you access on our site.

Python

The Python language is used in two different places within Nevrax. As a major component of Mailman (see below), it runs our publicly accessible mailing list. It is also the glue to tie our platform together.

Mailman

The typical GNU mailing list manager (under a slightly different presentation) also runs our mailing lists.

Fenris/Bugzilla

The Fenris bug reporting system, itself a derivative of the Bugzilla system, is used for internal and public bug tracking.

CVS

CVS is one of the easiest to use software management tools available. CVS is where all our sources are stored, and will also be used internally to keep track of all our in-game static data as it is generated.

Doxygen

We use the Doxygen documentation tool for our internal documentation. Some of the files you may browse are hand-written, but most are generated directly from the source code itself, making it very easy to make a reference manual for the NeL.

CVSWeb

Another tool used to quickly access the source and see what's been done and when, cvsweb is used both internally and on the www.nevrax.org web site.

FreeType

We have selected Freetype as the best font rendered available. Font rendering is something the 3D engine will have to do for the user interface, and in-game information.