Elemental Linux Server

What you will find here

This is the primary development site for the Elemental Linux Server (ELS) distribution. You are welcome to look around, but be warned that anything you find here should be considered unstable. If you are looking for official releases of ELS, please visit the ELS home page at http://www.ibiblio.org/elemental/ If you want to sneak a peak at the next release, this is the site for you.

Enhancements slated for the Helium release

New kernel and glibc

The Linux kernel has been updated to the 2.6 branch and glibc has been bumped up to 2.7.

PHP scripting

The popular PHP hypertext pre-processor has been added as an Apache module.

Better email support

New packages include exim and mailx. There is also documentation explaining how to install the SquirrelMail web-based email client on ELS.

File manager added

The Midnight Commander MP console-based file manager is available as an add-on package. Some notable features include an FTP client and ext2 undelete functions.

Better hardware monitoring

Smartmontools has been added to the base installation. This package keeps an eye on hard drive health for any drives that have S.M.A.R.T. technology.