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Rockstor is a specialist openSUSE-based Linux distribution designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS) and private cloud storage solutions. It is based on popular open-source technologies, such as the Btrfs file system and Docker for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers. In addition to standard NAS features like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snapshots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are also supported. Rockstor provides additional applications, including ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN and Plex. These applications (called "Rock-ons") are powered by a Docker-based application hosting framework. The Rockstor user interface, written in JavaScript, makes it simple to manage the server from within a web browser.
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| 2010-05-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SME Server 7.5 |
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Ian Wells has announced the release of SME Server 7.5, a CentOS-based distribution for enterprise servers: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.5. This release is based on CentOS 4.8. Changes in this release: the backup service has been made more robust; the email now correctly identifies incremental and full backups; a patch was added to support multiple Samba roles; as part of a major update with translations we have added seven new languages - Thai, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmal), Russian; Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication capability has been added for incoming SMTP ehlo requests; implement correctly the subject line SPAM tagging functionality; the syntax of the smtproutes and SMTPSmartHost templates have been updated to avoid MX lookups." Read the complete the release announcement for a full list of changes. Download: smeserver-7.5-i386.iso (650MB, MD5).
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| SME Server (known as e-smith at the time) was founded in January 1999 by Joseph and Kim Morrison. The company introduced the first version of its flagship software product, the e-smith server and gateway, in April 1999. By the end of the year, many thousands of e-smith servers were running in countries from Fiji to Finland. Word was spreading quickly among developers and systems integrators who needed a solid, easy-to-use server for their small-business customers. In July 2001, e-smith was acquired by Mitel Networks, but was later released as an open-source product under the GPL licence. In May 2013 a new not-for-profit organisation was set up to manage SME server. Due to copyright issues it was named Koozali SME Server Inc. The word "Koozali" approximates to Swahili for "rebirth". Future versions will use this name. The distribution, which is based on CentOS, is currently entirely funded by donations.
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| 2022-09-14 |
Distribution Release: SME Server 10.1 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of SME Server 10.1, an updated version of the project's specialist distribution for home servers. This version continues to be based on CentOS 7 and will be supported until June 2024: "The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 10.1. This release is based on CentOS 7. CentOS 7 has an end of life on 30 June 2024. Koozali SME Server users are encouraged to upgrade production servers to this release. Major changes in this release: httpd access control using httpd 2.4 syntax; improve handling of logs between journalctl and rsyslog; improve logrotate scripts; better handling of pseudonyms; improve yum update without reboot; upgrade bglibs and cvm-unix to latest version; Contribs data are now part of core backup, improved handling of SSL certificates; increased level of security in term of encryption for all services; FTP is only available over TLS by default to avoid clear text exchanges on the network; PHP module is not used anymore by Apache server, we now use php-fpm 7.4 by default...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download (pkglist): smeserver-10.1-x86_64.iso (1,575MB, MD5), smeserver-10.1-x86_64-netinstall.iso (635MB, MD5). |
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| 2021-06-15 |
Distribution Release: SME Server 10.0 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of SME Server 10.0, a major new update of the project's specialist distribution designed for home servers. This version is based on CentOS 7: "The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 10.0 which will be the next major release of SME Server. This release is based on CentOS 7. CentOS 7.# has an en of life on 30 June 2024. Koozali SME Server users are encouraged to update to the 10.0 release. In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore. The spare handling for RAID arrays is now fully implemented. Single disk install no longer creates a degraded Raid1 array. Two or more disks will be created as a Raid1-6 array. Support for further Raid configurations on install is now implemented. USB installs are now supported. Netinstall is now fully supported, install to a UEFI system is now fully supported. Handling of USB drives for backup and restore from the console is now resolved. Backup to workstation using removable storages is now fully supported." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (pkglist): smeserver-10.0-x86_64.iso (1,511MB, MD5), smeserver-10.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso (635MB, MD5). |
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| 2021-03-23 |
Development Release: SME Server 10.0 RC 1 |
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SME Server is a CentOS-based server distribution. The project's development team have announced a new testing snapshot, SME Server 10.0 RC 1. The release candidate supplies a number of improvements relating to RAID storage and installing from USB media as well as the ability to perform network installs. "In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore. (Remember, testing purpose only and note warnings). Restore of a sme9 console or workstation backup is now fully supported. Single disk install no longer creates a degraded Raid1 array, Two or more disks will be created as a Raid1-6 array. The spare handling for RAID arrays is now implemented. Support for further Raid configuration on install is now implemented. New Server-Manager Framework, Mojolicious, is now well on the way to full implementation. USB installs are once again fully supported. Note: it is important to use proposed apps to create the boot media. Net-install is once again fully supported, additional repos easily added. Install to a system supporting a UEFI BIOS is also now fully supported. Console backup, and workstation backup to removable storage is now fully supported. Further details are supplied in the release notes. Download: smeserver-10.0.rc1-x86_64.iso (1,515MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2017-05-02 |
Distribution Release: SME Server 9.2 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of SME Server 9.2, the second update to the stable 9.x branch of the project's CentOS-based distribution for servers: "The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of Koozali SME Server 9.2 final which is the next stable release of the SME 9.x branch. SME Server is intended for use on servers in small and medium-size businesses and is based on CentOS 6.x. The latest release, SME Server 9.2, provides users with an update to the distribution's 9.x series and is based on CentOS 6.9. SME Server 9.2 includes upstream updates and bug fixes and includes local fixes and additional feature requests. Major changes in this release: updated all to Koozali branding; server manager - allow access to the server manager without SSL from the loopback, don't redirect to http when login in/out of the server manager from localhost; file server - added W10 support to SME domain, add support for specifying TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2; LDAP - hook into the new SSL update event; mail server - update qpsmtpd to release 0.99.6...." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: smeserver-9.2-x86_64.iso (775MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-12-10 |
Distribution Release: SME Server 9.1 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of SME Server 9.1, the first update to the stable 9.x branch of the project's server distribution based on CentOS 6: "Koozali is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Koozali SME Server distribution. SME Server is intended for use on servers in small and medium businesses and is based on CentOS. The latest release, SME Server 9.1, provides users with an update to the distribution's 9.x series and is based on CentOS 6.x. SME Server 9.1 introduces support for Windows 10 domains and includes OpenSSL packages from the project's upstream distribution. Major changes in this release: added functionality to use a dummy NIC for the internal interface; set the check update frequency of 'smecontribs' through the server-manager; disable SSLv3; added Windows 10 support for SME Domain." See the release announcement and release notes for a complete list of changes. Download the installation DVD image from here: smeserver-9.1-x86_64.iso (767MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-11-03 |
Distribution Release: SME Server 8.2 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of a new version of the SME Server distribution. SME Server is intended for use on servers in small and medium businesses and is based on CentOS. The latest release, SME Server 8.2, provides users with an update to the distribution's 8.x series and is based on CentOS 5.x. SME Server 8.2 introduces support for Windows 10 domains and includes OpenSSL packages from the project's upstream distribution. "CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 will not work on i586 hardware. i586 hardware means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, Athlon XP and later. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at here. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 (so also for SME 8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is March 31 2017." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: smeserver-8.2-x86_64.iso (759MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-03 |
Development Release: SME Server 9.1 Beta 3 |
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Terry Fage has announced the availability of the third beta build of SME Server 9.1, a CentOS-based specialist distribution designed for servers: "The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 9.1 beta 3 which is based on CentOS 6.7. Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug tracker (and only there, please). Notes: in-place upgrades are not supported, it is necessary to backup and then restore; /boot partition is always RAID 1; the spare handling for RAID arrays is not implemented. Major changes in this release: added functionality to use a Dummy NIC for the internal interface; set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager; disable SSLv3; added Windows 10 support for SME Domain." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed changelog. Download: smeserver-9.1.beta3-x86_64.iso (813MB, MD5). The second release candidate for SME Server 8.2, the project's legacy branch, was also released yesterday. |
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| 2015-03-30 |
Development Release: SME Server 9.1 Beta 1 |
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Terry Fage has announced the availability of the first beta build of the upcoming SME Server 9.1, a CentOS-based specialist distribution for servers: "The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 9.1 beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.6. Changes in this release: dar - add pkgconfig and new upstream version; Workstation Backup, do not fail backup for mtime/ctime mismatch; change the sub checkMount() to findmnt; add requires nfs-utils; the nfs service is neither started or allowed to start; don't remove the apache group during restore; make pdbedit output independent from locale and time zone so it can be parsed; chown all DB files to ldap before staring slapd; set checkpoint in slapd.conf instead of DB_CONFIG; stop ldap on shutdown (rc0 and rc6); don't overwrite the ldif dump if slapcat's output is empty; run db_recover on startup; don't wipe LDAP DB when the ldif dump is empty...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full changelog. Download: smeserver-9.1.beta1-x86_64.iso (732MB, MD5). The second beta of SME Server 8.2, the project's legacy branch, was also released today. |
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| 2014-06-30 |
Distribution Release: SME Server 9.0 |
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Ian Wells has announced the release of SME Server 9.0, the first stable release of the project's server oriented distribution that is based on CentOS 6: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 9.0 which is based on CentOS 6.5. SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support for SME Server. It is with the deepest regret we have to inform you that on Wednesday 11th June Chris Burnat passed away. He was one of the most ardent supporters of Koozali SME Server and we all owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. We dedicate this release of SME Server 9.0 to Chris. Without him it would be nowhere near ready. If you download and use it, please remember him and his work, and that of all the other contributors who work tirelessly to make Koozali SME as good as it is." Here is the full release announcement. Download: smeserver-9.0-x86_64.iso (639MB, MD5). |
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