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4 <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to the Samba web pages</H2>
6 <P>Samba is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</A>/<A
7 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</A> suite
8 that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
9 Samba is freely available under the <A HREF="docs/GPL.html">GNU General
13 <b>Latest Samba 2.2 release:</b> <a
14 href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8a.tar.gz">Samba 2.2.8a (*security release*)</a>
15 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.8.html">release notes</a>
16 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8a.tar.asc">signature</a><br>
18 <b>Latest Samba 3.0 release:</b> <a
19 href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.2a.tar.gz">Samba 3.0.2a</a>
20 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.2a.html">release notes</a>
21 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.2a.tar.asc">signature</a>
27 <li>(29th Apr, 2004> <em>Samba 3.0.3 Available for Download</em>
28 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.3,
29 is available for download in both <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>
30 and <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.bz2">bzipped2 format</a>.
31 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
32 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
33 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
34 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixes since
35 the 3.0.2a release and new features have been added as well. Please
36 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.3.html">Release Notes</a> for
37 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
39 <p>Pre-built packages can be downloaded from the
40 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
47 <li>(29th Apr, 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team Member -- Deryck Hodge</em>
48 <p>We are glad to have Deryck join the Samba team as the new
49 maintainer of the web content on http://samba.org. In fact, he has
50 already been hard at work now for about a week.
57 <li>(26th Apr, 2004) <em>SambaXP 2004 A Success</em>
58 <p>SambaXP (<a href="http://www.sambaxp.org">www.sambaxp.org</a>), held in Göttingen, Germany April 5-7, was a success and a good time for all involved. Thirteen Samba Team members were present, leading ten talks and tutorials over the three days. <a href="http://www.sernet.de/">SerNet</a> did a great job as always of hosting. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the event the success that it was.</p>
59 <p>Slides are available from three of the talks <a href="/samba/ftp/slides/sambaxp04/">here</a>.</p>
60 <p>More to come from the conference when it becomes available.</p>
65 <li>(25th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba Development Changes to Subversion</em>
66 <p>On 4 April 2004, Samba development changed its version control system from CVS to Subversion. For more information on accessing Samba via Subversion see the Samba <a href="/samba/subversion.html">subversion page</a>. To download Subversion go to <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion.tigris.org</a>.</p>
72 <li>(9th Apr, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
74 Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
75 Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
76 (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
77 www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
78 is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
79 (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
82 <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
83 examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
84 examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
85 also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
87 Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
88 <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
89 <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
90 All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
92 For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
93 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131472216/qid%3D1077225188/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-8804968-9612156">Amazon.Com</a>.
94 The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
95 Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documentation</a>
102 <li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3 wins Innovation Award by German Magazine</em>
104 The German <a href="http://www.pc-professionell.de/">PC Professionell</a>
105 Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the <em>Innovation of the years
106 2003/2004</em> in the category <em>Network</em>. Volker Lendecke has
107 accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
113 <li>(16th Oct, 2003) <em>Tests by ITWEEK show "Samba 3 runs rings around Windows Server 2003 in file serving performance"</em>
115 Tests by the UK magazine <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk">ITWEEK</a> show
116 that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the
117 same hardware by a factor of <b>2.5 times</b>. The news article is <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1144312">here</a>
118 and the test results in graph form are <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeek/itw_graph_1144289.jsp">here.</a>
123 <li>(19th Aug, 2003) <em>SCO use of Samba code under the GPL</em>
125 Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
126 a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
127 Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
129 Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
130 pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
131 GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
134 "At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's
135 about destroying value."
138 In light of this, it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event
139 SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their
140 latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software
141 project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with
142 Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear: Samba3 allows
143 Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain
144 Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which
145 includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under
146 the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel
147 code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership
150 We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and
151 benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways.
152 SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free
153 Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open
154 Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to
155 use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the
156 epitome of hypocrisy.
158 The strength of Open Source/Free Software is that it is available to
159 all without restrictions on fields of endeavor, as the Samba Team
160 believes the ability to freely use, modify and learn from software
161 code is one of the grounding principles of computer science, and a
162 basic freedom for all.
164 Because of this, we believe that the Samba Team must remain true to our
165 principles and our code must be freely available to use even in ways we
166 personally disapprove of.
168 Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.
173 Christopher R. Hertel,
175 Jean Francois Micouleau,
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