Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, if you really don't want to know all this stuff, you might like the SME server from www.contribs.org. The next version is going to be based on Centos4 and there is an alpha release available now. There are things I
don't
like about the system but for small networks where one server does everything and you want 'fill-in-the-form' administration it is a good fit.
In other words, it's great for deploying at companies when you can't be around -- like most small consultants are for at small companies.
The last time I checked out work on SME, a number of Debian users were complaining that it should be Debian based. I have like Debian (Murdock's attitudes, used to be a maintainer too, etc...), but I thought it was rather self-defeating to move away from all the work that had already been done for the Red Hat Linux / RPM lineage. Especially since those people were not very into the existing codebase (or support).
I think it's great that they are going to base it on CentOS 4! And I'm glad to hear there is an Alpha test available.