Topic: SME Server 7.0 release status (see thread in SME 7.x forum)

[wellsi]

SME 7 Alpha 12 Changelog and RPM List have been added to the wiki.

As usual these are available from theDevelopment and Upcoming Releases  pages.


Some preliminary details of where the RPMs came from:
http://wellsi.com/sme/info/sme7a12.html

Information on all recent releases can be found here.
http://wellsi.com/sme/info/releases.html

[guest22]

SME Server 7.0alpha13 is on it's way to the mirrors.

[mdo]

A big THANK YOU to the (small?) group of developers who spend their time and skills on this project to keep it alive.

Best Regards,
Michael Doerner

[wellsi]

SME 7 Alpha 13 Changelog and RPM List have been added to the wiki.

As usual these are available from the Development and Upcoming Releases  pages.


Some preliminary details of where the RPMs came from:
http://wellsi.com/sme/info/sme7a13.html

Information on all recent releases can be found here.
http://wellsi.com/sme/info/releases.html

[raem]

It does not appear as if the devel rpm folder is being updated with the latest alpha version rpms (ie in this case alpha13), see
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/devel/
The srpm folder has the latest release versions and the latest iso is there (alpha13).

Is this intentional or unintentional ?

I assume we can download & install the few rpms rather than the whole iso.

Thanks

[mcp_dk]

wow you are moving ahead fast. When do you think you guys will have a stable Release candidate out?

I'm not asking for a date but just a round figure in months maybe.

[raem]

RayMitchell
> It does not appear as if the devel rpm folder is being updated .......
> I assume we can download & install the few rpms rather than the whole iso.

This has been resolved see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7261992&forum_id=43675

& other subsequent posts, look at other posts as the topic threading does not seem to be working correctly in all cases at Sourceforge.

[guest22]

SME Server 7.0alpha14 is on it's way to the mirrors.

http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/sme70/Downloads?v=ewe

As usual, feedback is appreciated here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=96750&atid=615772

[wellsi]

SME 7 Alpha 14 Changelog and RPM List have been added to the wiki.

As usual these are available from the Development and Upcoming Releases  pages.


Some preliminary details of where the RPMs came from:
http://wellsi.com/sme/info/sme7a14.html

Information on all recent releases can be found here.
http://wellsi.com/sme/info/releases.html

[m]

FYI:
I have successfully installed SME7alpha13 (/etc/e-smith-release=alpha12) on two hardware plattforms. Installation went extremly smooth in both cases.

1)
Asus 1720E2/AA4, motherboard NCCH-DL with Intel 875P Chipset, 2x3.0GHz Xeon, 1GB RAM, 3ware SATA Controller 8506-4 with 4 Disks as RAID5, NIC Intel 82254EI, NIC 3c905CX, Adapatec 2940UW SCSI

2)
Dell PowerEdge 2850, Intel E7520 Chipset, 2x3.0GHz Xeon, 3GB RAM, 2x SCSI HD 146 GB RAID1 with Perc4, Onboard Intel Gigabit NIC, QLogic QLA200 Fibrechannel HBA connected to EMC Clariion AX100
SME7 was installed on a SW-Raid1 consisting of one internal SCSI Disk and a virtual disk on the AX100.  I admit, that this in not a really useful configuration, but the fact that it works out of the box is impressive.

Although in the alpha state SME7 already looks good.  Big thank you to the devel team!

Michael

[CharlieBrady]

1)
Asus 1720E2/AA4, motherboard NCCH-DL with Intel 875P Chipset, 2x3.0GHz Xeon, 1GB RAM, 3ware SATA Controller 8506-4 with 4 Disks as RAID5, NIC Intel 82254EI, NIC 3c905CX, Adapatec 2940UW SCSI

Development will go faster if the developers had one of those. Or, to put it another way, development is slower on an old Celeron.

I admit, that this in not a really useful configuration, but the fact that it works out of the box is impressive.

Kudos for that should go to the kernel developers and RedHat.

Although in the alpha state SME7 already looks good.  Big thank you to the devel team!

Thanks for mentioning it.

[RodyMcAmp]

With sme 6.5 so up in the air . i was wondering if there was a web page or form just for sme 7.0.

thanks
rody

[chris burnat]

Could someone provide some simple instructions in the use of zsync for people relatively new to linux? I am not sure how to get it to work.  Can I install the rpm found in the download section on a Centos4 workstation?  I just downloaded the whole ISo again for version 7alpha14.  Given the increased interest generated by version 7 around the place, any saving in bandwidth resulting from using zsync will probably be appreciated.  Many thanks.  chris

[mdo]

I am still using rsync happily the following way:

cd into folder with the iso (called "smeserver.iso") and run
rsync -avv --progress --stats --partial rsync://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/devel/isos/smeserver.iso .

Works well for me.

Michael

[chris burnat]

Thanks Michael, will use it next time around.  Still would like to know about Zsync...