[Leaplist] Another Vixta ??

[Hank Lambert]

Are you recommending CentOS for my laptop, or for the mail server. I am 
not opposed to using CentOS for the mail server. I have read that it is 
every bit as stable as Debian. And thanks for the suggestion of Scalix. 
I had forgotten about that one. Ironically, I was doing an Exchange 
installation the night that we had the Scalix presentation. I talked to 
a few people that were there and they really liked it. I am going to 
look into that one.

Hank

Kevin Anderson wrote:
> Have a look at CentOS.  It's goal is to be binary compatible with RHEL, by community supported.  Though this isn't 100% accurate, think of it as RHEL with all the RH branding stripped out.  Cent will be closer to the RHEL that you think of then Fedora, which is (by design) a leading edge testbed for what will eventually become RHEL.  In the debian world, RHEL is Stable, Fedora is Unstable (Sid).
>
> For a mail server, I'll toss in a plug here and recommend Scalix.  If all you want is POP/IMAP, it's free.  And you'll find a MUCH nicer web and admin interface than what you're likely to find with sendmail in combination with a pop or imap daemon.  In the retail version (if you want to pay for it somewhere down the road) it'll plug into Active Directory so that user maintenance is simplified and passwords are handled in 1 place for everything (Single Sign On).
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> Kev.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hank Lambert <hank at hanklambert.com>
> Sent: Fri, 2/22/2008 8:08pm
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> Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Another Vixta ??
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> No advantage, just education. I am a network administrator in a 
> microsoft environment. I have been campaigning for the last 18 months to 
> start using Linux both internally as well as for some of our clients. I 
> have finally made headway, and we are about to start planning our first 
> Linux mail server. I will be using Debian as the server, and I am 
> guessing sendmail as the mail server. I plan on doing all of my own 
> research, and then ask some of the fine folks in this group to look at 
> my configuration during an installfest to make sure I have everything 
> set up correctly.
>
> All of my experiance with Linux so far is based on Debian. From what I 
> have seen, most IT job opportunities that are looking for Linux 
> experience want Red Hat, usually Enterprise Server or SuSe experience. 
> Being my experience is with Debian, I know and use (and love) apt. I 
> want to install Linux on my laptop to start my migration to be Windows 
> free at home. I figure if I install Fedora, I will get some experience 
> using RPMs and learn the Red Hat way of doing things.
>
> That is now, who knows what distro I will have on it in 6 months.
>
> Hank
>
> Ram K. Singh wrote:
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>> Why Fedora 8 ? Any particular advantage?
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