Difference between revisions of "Top 5"

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Revision as of 03:11, 27 November 2008

These are five projects that are almost ready and would be nice to have finished and documented.

See if you can help test or contribute to them. We limit the projects to five to concentrate effort.

Released in 7.4

Updated rpm currently in smeupdates-testing

This is implemented

For usage see the wiki entry ShadowCopy.

Storing user information and authentication in a LDAP backend would improve adding Linux workstations to the domain as well (Samba man pages: Winbind: Microsoft Active Directory Services).

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 ===Backup with dar===
-This contrib uses dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr) to create a
+http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
-feature rich backup system for smeserver to network shares or attached USB disk.
-This rpm has moved from being a contrib, to testing stage
+Released in 7.4
-for inclusion in the base install.
-The latest version of the rpm can be found in the smetest repo
-http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
 ===Disable yum remove===
-Software installer (namely "Remove installed software") is removing more than
+Updated rpm currently in smeupdates-testing
-just the packages selected due to dependencies.
-It runs yum -y remove <selected packages>
-and therefore removes the requested packages along with any
-dependencies BUT without asking for confirmation. I think this is a bit
-dangerous and much to tempting especially for someone that is a "bit sleepy"
 http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3133
 ===Shadow Copy===
-Letting network users restore previous versions via Explorer
+This is implemented
-has dramatically reduced the time in restoring
-files and is a tremendous time saver overall.
-This is already implemented, one minor bug remains
-[[Bugzilla:3862]]
 For usage see the wiki entry [[ShadowCopy]].