Living Reviews‘ ePublishing Toolkit integrates smoothly into Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.  Successful testing of our open source publication software suite on the new Linux distribution turned out as the easiest installation ever.

The standard setup already provides easy integration of main components used by our pubBuilder module, TeX4Ht and TeX Live are available via apt-get, as are all other additional python packages (see Installation on Ubuntu 10.04).  A recent update of our  software to Python 2.6 made this possible and thus enhanced usability.

The ePubTk is a software package providing tools to help in publishing scientific content on the web.  Its main task is the management of a family of online journals such as Living Reviews, and the conversion of LaTeX based articles in various formats (HTML, PDF) and enrichment by standardized metadata and electronic features.

Due to maintenance work, the Living Reviews server will be down from 8 May 2009, 8pm CET to 9 May 2009, 1am CET. All journals will be offline during these hours

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Last night, from July 7, 9:00 pm CEST until July 8, 0:30 am CEST our servers were not reachable, due to maintenance work on the infrastructure of the Wissenschaftspark Golm which connects our servers to the internet.

Having just compiled some numbers about server load on the main Living Reviews web server, I might as well share them.

Taken together all services currently served, we’re up to 200,000 requests on an average day; that’s about 2.3 requests per second.

The majority of traffic (almost 75%) still goes to Living Reviews in Relativity. But the recently published World Atlas of Language Structures already accounts for almost 10% of all hits, which is about the traffic Living Reviews in Solar Physics sees. The remaining traffic is shared by Living Reviews in European Governance and Living Reviews in Landscape Research equally.

These numbers are basically derived from our web statistics data.

Due to the fact that more and more services are provided on the Living Reviews Infrastructure, we had to come up with some sort of automated monitoring. Today I put a web interface on top of the monitoring database, to make the health of our services visible on the web.