So a few weeks ago we delivered Xandros OpenServer 12 which by far has been one of our most popular server systems. With downloads approaching the 6 digit mark and I'd say about 80% of our server customers upgrading lets take this time to talk about what we delivered. That was a solid release but as we listen to customers and users lets talk about ways we make it better because yes, even though we just dropped that release we are currently doing work on the next one. MR2 which will drop August 3rd BTW a little side note ALL releases will be in lockstep for the next release date. Users have told us they want a minimal install and as some of you know we have been making it very modular, so yes on MR2 you guys will get a minimal install option that takes out Apache and MongoDB but leaves the rest of it intact. Next, customers told us they want network install capabilities and that is currently being worked on. The next thing they want; the capabilities to do images so they can mirror systems and we ARE including that with the next release. RPM support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Linux applications; in the first release it was ehhh, it worked most of the time, in the new release you can install those packages or convert them to debian packages using Alien. Those were the major ones of course we have little knitpicks we are working on as well.
What did we get right. Cockpit. The change from Webmin to cockpit has been great. Dont get me wrong, Webmin is a fantastic tool but Cockpit has some features that are just great so that was a winner. The switch from Oracle VirtualBox to KVM has also been well received. But overall, this is a good release. It has some quirks and bugs to work out but overall I am satisfied with how it turned out.
