SME Server 8.1 Beta 3 發布

SME Server（最初叫作e-smith）由Joseph和Kim Morrison創立于1999年1月。同年4月公司推出了他們旗艦軟件產品的首個版本——e-smith服務器及網關。到年底時，已經有數千的e-smith服務器運行在從斐濟到芬蘭的各個國家。關于e-smith的消息很快地流傳在開發人員和系統集成人員中，而他們需要的正是面向小型企業用戶的牢固易用的服務器。2001年7月，e-smith公司被Mitel Networks收購，2004年9月又被Lycoris收購，并且該項目目前還得到了Resource Strategies公司的贊助。

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).