SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 发布

SME Server（最初叫作e-smith）由Joseph和Kim Morrison创立于1999年1月。同年4月公司推出了他们旗舰软件产品的首个版本——e-smith服务器及网关。到年底时，已经有数千的e-smith服务器运行在从斐济到芬兰的各个国家。关于e-smith的消息很快地流传在开发人员和系统集成人员中，而他们需要的正是面向小型企业用户的牢固易用的服务器。2001年7月，e-smith公司被Mitel Networks收购，2004年9月又被Lycoris收购，并且该项目目前还得到了Resource Strategies公司的赞助。

Ian Wells has announced the availability of the third beta build of SME Server 8.1, a CentOS-based distribution for servers of small and medium-sized companies: " The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.1 beta 3 which is based on CentOS 5.10. Note that CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 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. Changes from beta 2: update footer copyright and renew full copyright text; latest version of Dar, 2.4.11, for workstation backup; workstation backup - fix selective restore by requesting array of results from CGI.pm, new method to show files being restored is needed when using Dar 2.4." See the detailed release announcement for further information. Download: smeserver-8.1beta3-x86_64.iso (684MB, MD5).