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-<H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to the Samba web pages</H2>
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-<P>Samba is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</A>/<A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</A> suite
-that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
-Samba is freely available under the <A HREF="docs/GPL.html">GNU General
-Public License</A>.
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-<b>Latest Samba 2.2 release:</b> <a
-href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8a.tar.gz">Samba 2.2.8a (*security release*)</a>
-<a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.8.html">release notes</a>
-<a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.8a.tar.asc">signature</a><br>
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-<b>Latest Samba 3.0 release:</b> <a
-href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.2a.tar.gz">Samba 3.0.2a</a>
-<a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.2a.html">release notes</a>
-<a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.2a.tar.asc">signature</a>
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-<H2>Samba News</H2>
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-<ul>
-<li>(20th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.3RC1 available for download</em>
- <p>
- This is a release candidate snapshot of the Samba 3.0.3 code
- base and should be considered for testing only. A release
- candidate (RC) means that we are close to the final, stable
- release and in provided for Quality Assurance (QA) purposes.
- This release is <b>not</b> intended for production servers. Use
- at your own risk.<br>
-
- However, there have been several bug fixes and new features
- added since 3.0.2a that we feel it is
- important to make it available to the Samba community for wider testing.
- The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
- can be found on Samba mirrors. <a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS
- for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, and Fedora Core 1</a> are currently available. Packages
- for other platforms will become available as their are provided by volunteers. The
- <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/WHATSNEW-3.0.3rc1.txt">full release notes</a> are
- available on-line as well.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<ul>
-<li>(April 9, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
- <p>
- Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
- Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
- (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
- www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
- is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
- (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
- Jelmer R. Vernooij.
- <p>
- <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
- examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
- examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
- also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
- <p>
- Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
- <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
- <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
- All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
- <p>
- For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
- <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>.
- The PDF and HTML versions Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
- Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documenation</a>
- page.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>(5th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.3pre2 available for download</em>
- <p>
- This is the second preview release of the Samba 3.0.3 code base and
- is provided for testing only. This release is <b>not</b> intended
- for production servers. However, there have
- been several bug fixes and new features added since 3.0.2a that we feel it is
- important to make it available to the Samba community for wider testing.
- The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
- can be found on Samba mirrors. <a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS
- for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, and Fedora Core 1</a> will be available within 24 hours. Packages for other
- platforms will become available as their are provided by volunteers. The
- <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3.0.3pre2.txt">full release notes</a> are
- available on-line as well.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<ul>
-<li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3 wins Innovation Award by German Magazine</em>
- <p>
- The German <a href="http://www.pc-professionell.de/">PC Professionell</a>
- Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the <em>Innovation of the years
- 2003/2004</em> in the category <em>Network</em>. Volker Lendecke has
- accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<ul>
-<li>(16th Oct, 2003) <em>Tests by ITWEEK show "Samba 3 runs rings around Windows Server 2003 in file serving performance"</em>
- <p>
- Tests by the UK magazine <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk">ITWEEK</a> show
- that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the
- 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>
- and the test results in graph form are <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeek/itw_graph_1144289.jsp">here.</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>(19th Aug, 2003) <em>SCO use of Samba code under the GPL</em>
- <p>
- Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
- a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
- Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
- <br><br>
- Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
- pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
- GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
- <br><br>
- <BLOCKQUOTE>
- "At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's
- about destroying value."
- </BLOCKQUOTE>
- <br>
- In light of this it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event
- SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their
- latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software
- project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with
- Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear; Samba3 allows
- Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain
- Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which
- includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under
- the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel
- code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership
- attribution.
- <br><br>
- We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and
- benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways.
- SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free
- Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open
- Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to
- use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the
- epitome of hypocrisy.
- <br><br>
- The strength of Open Source/Free Software is that it is available to
- all without restrictions on fields of endeavor, as the Samba Team
- believes the ability to freely use, modify and learn from software
- code is one of the grounding principles of computer science, and a
- basic freedom for all.
- <br><br>
- Because of this, we believe that the Samba Team must remain true to our
- principles and our code must be freely available to use even in ways we
- personally disapprove of.
- <br><br>
- Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.
- <br><br>
- Jeremy Allison,
- Marc Kaplan,
- Andrew Bartlett,
- Christopher R. Hertel,
- Jerry Carter,
- Jean Francois Micouleau,
- Paul Green,
- Rafal Szczesniak,
- Jelmer Vernooij,
- Volker Lendecke.
- Simo Sorce
- <br><br>
- Samba Team.
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