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The Zentyal Development Team announced today the release of Zentyal 2.0, the Linux small business server formerly known as eBox Platform. Zentyal aims at providing SMBs easy and affordable network management and reducing their network infrastructure costs by more than 50%.
FreeNAS has been listed in the top ten at Best Open Source Software Awards (BOSSIE) 2010 in the networking tools category. Other winners are the Hyperic HQ and OpenNMS monitoring solutions, the Vyatta router Linux and Cacti, another monitoring application.
eBox Technologies announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Single Box Solutions, part of Netser Group, located in Dominican Republic. Netser Group is an important system integrator and Microsoft/Unix/Linux service provider with a number of branches in South America. As a part of the agreement, Single Box Solutions will promote eBox Platform, the Linux Small Business Server, in the Dominican Republic market and will distribute eBox based server products and services throughout the country as an Authorized eBox Partner.
Yesterday iXsystems released another internal/experimental snapshot of FreeNAS 0.8. I was able to download the source and build this latest developer preview version and now I am able to post the first screenshot of the new FreeNAS 0.8 web user interface:
Obviously there is more work to be done, but iXsystems and the team there are working hard to get FreeNAS 0.8 finished.
eBox Technologies, developer of the Linux small business server eBox Platform, announced today that eBox Platform will change its name to Zentyal in order to reflect more accurately the product and the services based on it. The change will become effective from the 1st of September, with the launch of the new 2.0 version of the server software. Simultaneously, the company eBox Technologies will also change it’s name to Zentyal.
Warner Losh from iXsystems has kindly send me a disk image of the first FreeNAS 0.8 developer build. The guys at iXsystems have done a great job so far and the core of FreeNAS has been successfully ported to FreeBSD 8.1.
A basic web GUI is up and running and things are starting to take shape. I am working with Warner to try and get some screen shots for you.
iXsystems has uploaded a snapshot of their new FreeBSD 8.1-based FreeNAS.
This snapshot is for developers only. It is not functionally complete yet, and there are likely many rough edges.
If you are interested in playing with it you will need to download the code and build it yourself. You can find the code in SVN and here is the accompanying README.
‘yoyojazz’ has posted a review of the Learning FreeNAS book on Amazon.com.
In it he says:
eBox Technologies announced today a new version of the eBox Control Center, a product that allows centralized monitoring and administration of multiple eBox servers. This version includes new features such as automatic configuration of alerts or users’ password security strength audit.
eBox Technologies, developer of the Linux small business server eBox Platform, announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Novabox Service Inc., a Dutch managed services provider that aims at providing its customers all-in-one network and software solutions.
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