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SME Server - News and Announcements
Current Stable Release: SME Server 7.4 released on 21st November 2008.	Development Releases and Statuses: SME Server 7.5 - Currently RC2 - See ~~bugzilla:4785~~ for status SME Server 8.0 - Currently Beta5 - See the Wiki page for details, and ~~bugzilla:3640~~ for status

New Main Page for SME Server Wiki

Timn 18:06, 10 May 2010 (UTC) - A New Main Page layout has been approved following a forum topic and bug. We hope you like it. Enjoy SME Server.

Welcome to the information and documentation wiki for SME Server

SME Server

Welcome to http://contribs.org, the home of the SME Server. We're here to provide collaborative documentation of the SME Server project.

SME Server is a leading Open Source distribution for small and medium enterprises. It is a simple, powerful, secure Linux server for networking and communicating, used by thousands of individuals, companies and organizations all over the world. SME Server provides a friendly, free alternative to expensive proprietary software, standing apart from the competition by shipping with most common functionality preconfigured, and features a number of popular additional enhancements in the form of downloadable Contributions.

SME Server is built on CentOS using the publicly available open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources. It's advantages include:

Simple to set up and use
Secure and stable to operate
Cross platform and extendible to meet future needs
Open source and Free to use

SME Server provides the following standard functionality (See About SME Server for more detail):

Ease of Administration
File and print sharing
Sharing of a single Internet connection between multiple computers
A robust email server, which includes virus and spam filtering and webmail
A network firewall to protect against Internet intruders
Secure remote access
Directory services
Web application server, including support for Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP (LAMP)
RAID and Backup
Automatic updates
Extendibility
Support for multiple languages
and much more ...

all managed through an intuitive web interface

The links to the right provide comprehensive access to all the available Documentation for SME Server including details of the Community, Server Manuals (including screenshots), FAQs, Contribs and How To's.

The wiki menu bar at the left equally provides easy access to sections of this Wiki, software downloads, a place to report any bugs, and vibrant user community forums, whilst you navigate through the wiki.

Many individuals and corporations contribute to the ongoing development of SME Server, which is made available freely under the GNU General Public License. This license requires the public release of any modifications to the server, and allows these to be used to improve later versions.

While SME Server is freely available under the GPL license, if you find SME Server useful we ask that you make a Donation in order to help keep this project alive.

Support

Support for SME Server is via the Community and it is highly recommended that you make yourself familiar with it and the Documentation (read this at least twice) before diving in. You should also read the Advice for new and existing users.

The three main methods of support available are:

Documentation

The Wiki documentation is the primary source of information for SME Server. This should always be your first port of call when seeking help and support for SME Server
'Google' is your friend (as well as all other internet search engines)

Forums

Use the Forums if you want advice on how to do something not covered in the Wiki
Post to the Forums if you found or did something, and you think other people might find it interesting or helpful to share
If you don't know how to do something, or don't understand the Wiki, ask in the Forums
If you report a problem in the forums, and it relates to how standard SME Server, a Contributed Add-on or Howto should work, you will more than likely be directed to raise it as a Bug to be given structured advice and help you resolve it

Bugzilla

If you do something and it doesn't 'just work', or it doesn't work as per the Wiki, raise a Bug
If you want to do, or are trying to do, something which is not standard SME or not in the Wiki, ask in the Forums
For more information on Bugzilla see the Bugzilla Help page.

	Note:
	The place of choice of the Developers to solve problems is Bugzilla, so don't be afraid to use it. In the best spirit of Open Source, Support is also given freely by those who update the Wiki and frequent the Forums and Bugzilla. Please be respectful and don't abuse the Community - become a part of it instead

Documentation

SME Server Community

About SME Server
Download SME Server
Community for SME Server
Volunteering to Help SME Server
Donate to Help SME Server
Constitution of Contribs.org
Smolt - SME Server Project Host, Device and Statistics Tracking
Translations of SME Server