[nzlug] 'SME type' all in one distro recommendations

Howard howard-nzlug at fox.co.nz
Thu Aug 23 12:29:11 NZST 2007


All, I'm looking at an all in one server distro for a small business, 
that is 90% 'web' managed.  Mainly for file storage, but also wanting 
things like acting as a mail proxy, ntp etc (all with a nicely 
integrated web based managment tool set)

I have researched SME-Server (centOS based), and looked briefly at 
e-Box.  SME looks more mature (as per distrowatch) and seems to be more 
widely used.  Also has a reasonable community and plug-in architecture. 
SME has this 'ibay' concept thingy that looks weird, but could be useful 
for the client to manage files, post them to the web etc.

e-box not as mature (not yet on distrowatch), but is Debian based, 
moving fast and looks like a lot of nice features.

I've also seen clark-connect, but they seem to be flouting the 
opensource concept a bit, as 'higher featured' versions seem to cost 
(before downloading).

Any recommendations either way on the above, or for other distros (of a 
similar type) would be a help.

thanks
Howard



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