Thomas Dukes wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell >> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:29 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Networking setup/help >> >> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 09:31 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >>>> If you are starting from scratch and don't know your way >> around the >>>> linux system, why not use one of the 'appliance' style >> distributions >>>> like ClearOS (fairly new) or SMEserver (older but still works)? >>>> These are based on CentOS code but have a simple web interface for >>>> configuration and will probably set up the firewalling/NAT better >>>> than you would do by yourself. >>> ClearOS looks awesome. Have you tried it? >>> >> I don't have a real use for it right now but I have one >> running under vmware to test and migrated some big imap >> mailboxes over from an old smeserver. It seems to be very >> well done with a very responsive web interface for management. >> > > I like CentOS. While it might not be for the average Joe (me), the folks > here are really helpful and knowlegeable. > > Did a really short stint with 'White Box' until that kinda fizzled. > > I have no reason to leave CentOS. ClearOS really is CentOS as far as most of the code goes. It just comes with a simple web interface to mange setup of services that would otherwise be moderately hard to get right on your own (firewalling, cyrus email server, ldap user directory, dns, vpn, etc.). You could easily turn it over to someone you wouldn't trust with the root password to a bare normal linux box. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com