The minimal requirements of version 8.10 have not been modified since version 8.04. You can see a summary of all changes since 8.04.

As a regular release, 8.10 benefits of an 18 month lifecycle.

The following is a selection of the common packages packages that are fully maintained on Ubuntu Server Edition 8.10.

Kernels

• Default 2.6.27-server Tickless, No Preemption, Deadline I/O, PAE, 100Hz

• JeOS 2.6.27 Stripped down kernel for Virtualization

Web

• Apache 2.2 event/prefork/worker/dev

• Tomcat 6

Database

• MySQL 5

• PostgreSQL 8.3

Email

• Dovecot 1.1

• Postfix 2.5

• Exim 4.69

• SpamAssassin 3.2

• ClamAV 0.94

• amavisd-new 2.6

Languages

• PHP 5.2

• Perl 5.10

• Python 2.5

• Gcc 4.3

• Ruby 4.2

Networking

• LTSP 5.1

• Samba 3.2

• OpenLDAP 2.4 (cn=config)

• OpenVPN 2.1

• FreeRadius 1.1

Monitoring

• Munin 1.2

• Nagios 3

Backup

• Bacula 2.4

• BackupPC 3.1

Package management

• Aptitude 0.4

• APT 0.7

• Dpkg 1.14

Security

• AppArmor 2.3

• Iptables 1.4

• ufw 0.23

Clustering

• Ocfs 2

• Gfs 2

• RH-Cluster 2

• DRDB 8

Virtualization

• KVM 72

• Libvirt 0.4

• Virt-Manager 0.5

Storage

• Lvm 2

• aoetools 26

• openiscsi 2.0