14 DAY TRIAL // The Slack Mini Server (SMS) Project team announced, on the 28th of February, the immediate availability of Slack Mini Server 1.4.2, a Slackware 12.2-based Linux distribution. This version brings the DansGuardian web content filter and slapt-get as an optional component.
Changes have been made in the startup scripts too and all the lines from the rc.local file have been moved to rc.M, leaving the first one empty and easier to edit. Highlights of Slack Mini Server 1.4.2:
· PHP was updated to version 5.2.9; · Cpio is now at version 2.9; · Cdrtools 2.01.01a57; · Squid was updated to version 2.47; · Vsftpd 2.1.0; · Rkhunter 1.3.4; · Httpd 2.2.11; · The Webmin interface was updated to version 1.450; · Updated lftp to version 3.7.8; · Dovecot 1.1.11 and Dovecot-sieve 1.1.6; · MailScanner is now at version 4.74.16-1; · Postfix 2.5.6; · PHPLdapadmin 1.1.0.6; · PHPMyAdmin 3.1.2; · Ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11; · Several font issues in hylafax were fixed; · The default theme in SquirrelMail is now SMS; · Bind 9.4.3; · The pid.location in rc.openldap was fixed; · Openssl-0.9.8i, openssl-solibs-0.9.8i and ntp-4.2.4p6 received security fixes; · A line for cleanup dhcpcd pid was added in rc.inet1; · The freschclam cron job was added to allow the ClamAV database to be updated every hour.
About Slack Mini Server
Slack Mini Server (SMS) is a Linux server distribution designed to be configured and maintained through a web interface (Webmin). It comes with many powerful server tools like Apache 2, Sendmail, Postifx, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Squid, MySQL, iptables, MailScanner or CUPS. The server can run directly from the CD or can be permanently installed on the HDD. Another cool feature that will appeal to regular users too is TorrentFlux, a BitTorrent client that allows torrents to be handled from anywhere.
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