Comes with simplified NethForge modules installation

Mar 26, 2015 07:05 GMT  ·  By

The NethServer development team, through Alessio Fattorini, was extremely happy to announce today, March 26, the immediate availability for download of the NethServer 6.6 Linux kernel-based operating system for servers, based on the upstream CentOS 6.6 distribution.

The NethServer 6.6 release brings various new features, such as a first time configuration wizard, an all-new Software Center page, a built-in disk space analyzer, yellow to-do notifications, network card replacement assistant, Server Certificate page, Phone Home, and simplified NethForge modules installation.

“We are proud to announce a new NethServer release. This is a thrilling day for the whole NethServer Community. It has been a journey to get to this point and we are so excited about the journey ahead of us,” said Alessio Fattorini in the official release announcement of NethServer 6.6.

Here’s what’s new in NethServer 6.6

NethServer 6.6 brings lots of goodies for system administrators who want to deploy the distribution on their servers, as a First Configuration wizard has been added in the Server Manager, allowing them to set a password, select a timezone, change the hostname, as well as to tune various security related settings. The First Configuration wizard will appear during the first login, after installation.

The Package Manager page is now called Software Center, has been moved to the Administration section, and displays Installed and Available modules. Moreover, a built-in disk space analyzer tool will now allow you to easily visualize disk usage in a nice graph, available in the Dashboard, under the Disk usage tab, and a warning will now appear on the Dashboard when attempting to replace network cards.

Last but not least, yellow to-do notifications are now displayed after each configuration change or module installation, a new Server Certificate page lets administrators view and generate self-signed SSL certificates, Phone Home page has been added to collect limited usage statistics, and it is now much easier to install modules from the NethForge repository.

Download NethServer 6.6 right now from Softpedia. Those of you who have the NethServer 6.6 RC1 (Release Candidate) version installed, can easily upgrade to the final release by accessing the Software Center page and checking for available updates. Also, do not hesitate to check out the full NethServer 6.6 release notes to see what's new.

NethServer 6.6 (5 Images)

NethServer 6.6: The new Software Center page
NethServer 6.6: Software Center lets you install updatesNethServer 6.6: The First Configuration wizard
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