14 DAY TRIAL // Univention's Maren Abatielos is informing Softpedia today, February 7, 2017, about the general availability of the first milestone towards the major Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.2 operating system.
Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.2 has recently entered development, based on the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" operating system, and this first milestone is here to give users an early look at what's coming to the final release of the Linux server OS later this year.
Apart from rebasing the entire system on Debian Jessie, which is considered a major upgrade from the Debian GNU/Linux 7 "Wheezy" series that was used in previous versions of UCS, the Univention devs also managed to implement a lot of the latest GNU/Linux and Open Source technologies.
These include the second Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming Samba 4.6 file sharing platform, and the long-term supported Linux 4.9 kernel. The Univention Corporate Server 4.2 App Center was rebased on the latest Docker container technology, and it looks like the management system has been greatly simplified.
"With UCS 4.2, we have decisively further developed and simplified the operating concept of UCS. Now, the central portal will allow to quickly access all applications in the environment as well as manage the different UCS instances. This will make it easier for users to access released applications," said Stefan Gohmann in the announcement.
Final release is scheduled for early April 2017
Over 15,000 source packages have been updated in this first development milestone of the upcoming Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.2 operating system, due for release in early April 2017. However, until then, we will be able to get our hands on a second milestone, which is scheduled for March 7, and on the Release Candidate on March 21.
Early adopters and those who want to help test this first preview version of Univention Corporate Server (UCS) 4.2 can download the 64-bit ISO image right now from our website. However, when testing, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release build of the Linux OS and it shouldn't be deployed on a production machine.