SME Server 8.1 Beta 1 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 first beta of SME Server 8.1, a CentOS-based server-oriented distribution for small and medium-sized enterprises: " The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.1 beta 1 which is based on CentOS 5.9. Changes in this release: Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs, this now works correctly for all days of the week; to increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup; allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups; in the console, under item 8, refer to removable media instead of USB device; add an option to use Wake on LAN before starting Workstation Backup; Workstation Backup, report cifs mount errors, be compatible with destinations that include spaces...." Read the full release announcement for a detailed list of changes in this release. Interested testers can download this beta release from here: smeserver-8.1beta1-x86_64.iso (703MB).