SME Linux 9.0 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 release of SME Server 9.0, a major new update of the project's CentOS-based distribution for servers: " The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 9.0 beta 1 which is based on CentOS 6.4. Changes in this release. Backups: Dar updated to 2.4.10; add a choice to delete old backup before or after backup; remove temporary directory on success; refactor directory tree creation and removal; inconsistent formatting of host share name in messages; more reliable catalog creation; report CIFS mount errors; incremental backup fix; allow spaces in the backup destination, includes fix for disk usage broken with spaces; desktop dackup - allow user setting of compression level; use wake on LAN before starting backup with DAR; NFS syntax is deprecated for CIFS mount; require cifs-utils and use UNC paths for CIFS mount; improve text in console backup for success and failure...." The release announcement includes a detailed changelog. Download: smeserver-9.0beta1-x86_64.iso (556MB, MD5).