apache.org) is not only the world??™s most
popular open source Web server software, it??™s the most popular of all Web server software.
Most Linux distributions that contain server software include Apache. The Apache
Software Foundation maintains the Apache Web (HTTP) server and about a dozen other
projects, including SpamAssassin (for blocking and filtering e-mail spam), Apache Portals
(to provide portal software), and a bunch of projects for producing modules to use with
your Apache Web server.
The Internet Systems Consortium (www.isc.org) supports critical Internet infrastructure
projects under open source licenses. Those projects include Bind (DNS server software),
DHCP (to assign IP addresses and other information to Internet clients), INN (for
creating Internet news servers), and OpenReg (a tool for managing delegation of domains
in a shared registry).
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The Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org) is the principal sponsor of the GNU
Project. Most of the UNIX commands and utilities included in Linux that were not closely
associated with the kernel were produced under the umbrella of the GNU Project.
The Mozilla project??™s (www.mozilla.org) first major Web browser product was
Mozilla Navigator, which was originally based on code released to the open source community
from Netscape Communicator.
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