Topic: Upgrading to 8.0

[vladd]

Stefano

AFAIK Centos 5.8 is not obsolete

Of course it isn't, generally speaking. I was merely referring to points 1 and 2 of my original post and, unfortunately, for me it is obsolete (for installing it on bare modern, fast, low-medium cost hardware). However, SME is still my best choice for installation in a narrow purpose VM (i.e. for email handling).

Actually I wonder why the SME distribution doesn't also come in the shape of a few narrow purpose, ready configured VMware virtual appliances ... I think it may gather more audience if people that don't know too much about Linux (still plenty of them) would get an easy chance to see how easy it is to configure and use.

[janet]

vladd

Actually I wonder why the SME distribution doesn't also come in the shape of a few narrow purpose, ready configured VMware virtual appliances ...

There is no shortage of ideas, but there is a shortage of active & skilled developers to implement these ideas.
How about creating the VM images yourself & then request access so you can upload these to the sme mirror system.

You can also put suggestions into the bug tracker as a NFR (New Feature Request), & see what the response is.

[vladd]

mary,

In a few weeks I'll set up my new mail server with SME 8.0 and probably SOGo. Once the VM is OK I'll let you guys know. As for NFR, it seems my use case is such a narrow niche that I wouldn't bug your developers with it, unless I can do some progress myself first.

Thanks for the active support.