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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,
29 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.gz">Samba 3.0.3</a>
30 (<a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.asc">GPG sig</a>), is
31 available for download. This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
32 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
33 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixes since
34 the 3.0.2a release and new features have been added as well. Please
35 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.3.html">Release Notes</a> for
36 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
38 <p>Pre-built packages can be downloaded from the
39 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
46 <li>(29th Apr, 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team Member -- Deryck Hodge</em>
47 <p>We are glad to have Deryck join the Samba team as the new
48 maintainer of the web content on http://samba.org.
55 <li>(26th Apr, 2004) <em>SambaXP 2004 A Success</em>
56 <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>
57 <p>Slides are available from three of the talks <a href="/samba/ftp/slides/sambaxp04/">here</a>.</p>
58 <p>More to come from the conference when it becomes available.</p>
63 <li>(25th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba Development Changes to Subversion</em>
64 <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>
70 <li>(9th Apr, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
72 Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
73 Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
74 (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
75 www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
76 is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
77 (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
80 <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
81 examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
82 examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
83 also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
85 Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
86 <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
87 <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
88 All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
90 For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
91 <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>.
92 The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
93 Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documentation</a>
100 <li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3 wins Innovation Award by German Magazine</em>
102 The German <a href="http://www.pc-professionell.de/">PC Professionell</a>
103 Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the <em>Innovation of the years
104 2003/2004</em> in the category <em>Network</em>. Volker Lendecke has
105 accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
111 <li>(16th Oct, 2003) <em>Tests by ITWEEK show "Samba 3 runs rings around Windows Server 2003 in file serving performance"</em>
113 Tests by the UK magazine <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk">ITWEEK</a> show
114 that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the
115 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>
116 and the test results in graph form are <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeek/itw_graph_1144289.jsp">here.</a>
121 <li>(19th Aug, 2003) <em>SCO use of Samba code under the GPL</em>
123 Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
124 a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
125 Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
127 Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
128 pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
129 GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
132 "At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's
133 about destroying value."
136 In light of this, it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event
137 SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their
138 latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software
139 project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with
140 Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear: Samba3 allows
141 Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain
142 Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which
143 includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under
144 the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel
145 code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership
148 We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and
149 benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways.
150 SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free
151 Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open
152 Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to
153 use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the
154 epitome of hypocrisy.
156 The strength of Open Source/Free Software is that it is available to
157 all without restrictions on fields of endeavor, as the Samba Team
158 believes the ability to freely use, modify and learn from software
159 code is one of the grounding principles of computer science, and a
160 basic freedom for all.
162 Because of this, we believe that the Samba Team must remain true to our
163 principles and our code must be freely available to use even in ways we
164 personally disapprove of.
166 Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.
171 Christopher R. Hertel,
173 Jean Francois Micouleau,
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