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What is PyMO Server?
PyMO Server is a selection of free software based on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 already available from the Internet. This selection's goal is to ease the installation and setup processes of a server with the most-used features in SMEs, such as:
- Authentication
- Backups
- E-mail
- Internet
PyMO server is Free Software. The installer, and the custom scripts created by the Vía Libre Foundation are distributed under the GPL licence.
The individual packages preinstalled are distributed under the original licence found in the documentation shipped with them.
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Why PyMO Server?
Our society counts hundreds companies of various sizes, some of them of public interest, as do the NGO's - starting from schools, libraries, some foundations, etc. - and others with commercial or industrial goals, as do the SMEs. Of course, the good status of those contribute, directly or not, into social well-being and as well the computerization of operations as the access to electronic communications are powerful ways of getting to his well-being.
Lamentably, many of them just pay to face their computerization. We all know that the major cost in computing today is not the hardware, but the software and its maintenance. Many, facing the absolute necessity of computerizing themselves and their incapacity to pay the licences, choose to use illegal copies of commercial programs, putting themselves in a great legal sanctions danger.
On the other side, some SMEs count on their revenues to do it, paying for the right to use proprietary software. Doing that, those are in a permanent technological dependency situation, having to always trust a single provider for any solution they need to their problems.
Using Free Software, both problems vanish and the SMEs can from one side choose freely among various options, and from the other side can use an immense collection of programs already free and for free on the Internet.
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Features
The following services are automatically preinstalled, configured and working in PyMO Server.
- DNS server (bind) preconfigured to manage the local domain during installation
- File server for Unix-clients (NFS)
- File server for Windows-clients (Samba)
- Mail server (Exim as MTA (SMTP) and Courier as IMAP and
IMAPs servers).
- LDAP server (OpenLDAP)
- Proxy server to accelerate web browsing (Squid)
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Downloads
Before going on, don't forget that PyMO Server is still in development, which means it could still contain bugs. If you find some, don't hesitate to report it by mail to pymoserver @ vialibre.org.ar
The last stable version is 0.4e
vlps-0.4e.iso 176M
vlps-0.4e.md5sum 4K
manual-pymoserver-0.4.pdf 4K
The last development version as of 31/07/2005 is 0.5beta9
vlps-0.5beta9.iso 263M
vlps-0.5beta9.md5sum 5K
This version is based on Debian Sarge and is already far better than the 0.4 version, even if this is still a development version and there are still some bugs needed fixing, and security to thighten and test extensively.
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