Although not a point-and-click affair for EZblue yet, installing a groupware suite on Linux is fairly trivial. If groupware is that important, find a FOSS alternative to what is included in MS SBS (there is a significant number of viable alternatives) and install it for free. Let me stress this again: EZblue and other similar LAMP stacks are easily compared with SBS since such LAMP projects are focused on making it easier for admins to deal with configuring each module, and installing new services in Linux is _extremely_ trivial compared to Windows when you begin to use the newer generation package managers.
Concerning CentOS, that could be said of just about any distribution. However, that completely misses the point and does make me wonder if you have installed any of these components AND configured them. If so, you should be able to tell the difference in ease and speed of rolling them out when you try out something like EZblue. For new SMB admins that aren't terribly familiar with the disparate config files they must tie together in LAMP, this kind of project makes it much easier for that admin to install and configure all of them together. I must say again you need to first try this or other similar projects to fully appreciate it. It shouldn't take a systems _engineer_ anyway to install a LAMP stack. Sheesh! ;)
One of the previous commenters mentioned some other drop-in LAMP stacks -- I appreciate the info and I'm already beginning to get information on reviewing those as well.
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Posted by: TK on March 13, 2008 04:33 PMConcerning CentOS, that could be said of just about any distribution. However, that completely misses the point and does make me wonder if you have installed any of these components AND configured them. If so, you should be able to tell the difference in ease and speed of rolling them out when you try out something like EZblue. For new SMB admins that aren't terribly familiar with the disparate config files they must tie together in LAMP, this kind of project makes it much easier for that admin to install and configure all of them together. I must say again you need to first try this or other similar projects to fully appreciate it. It shouldn't take a systems _engineer_ anyway to install a LAMP stack. Sheesh! ;)
One of the previous commenters mentioned some other drop-in LAMP stacks -- I appreciate the info and I'm already beginning to get information on reviewing those as well.
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