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SearchOpenSource: Samba’s Jerry Carter Talks Samba’s Future

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 15, 2007

[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford
for this link. ]

What do you see coming next in Samba?

Jerry Carter: Active Directory domain control
is in the best interest of the community and developers. We plan on
making performance improvements to Winbind and logon support. There
will be security and DNS updates. There will of course be a bunch
of Vista related patches as well. Samba has an evolutionary
development model, and over the next six months–in the production
code, the 3.0 code–we will focus on compatibility with Microsoft
service packs…”


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