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Hi all,<br>
<br>
The time has come and we will finally now migrate to Kolab.<br>
As far as we have figured, Kolab is not (yet?) available as a
turnkey appliance (i.e. a ready bundle of an OS and Kolab), but as
package for installation on a distribution. We found this
information on the website:<br>
"Native packages are available for <a
href="http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/rhel.html">Red Hat
Enterprise Linux</a>, <a
href="http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/centos.html">CentOS</a>,
<a href="http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/fedora.html">Fedora</a>,
<a href="http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/debian.html">Debian</a>
and experimental packages are available for <a
href="https://kolab.org/news/2012/12/11/kolab-3-rc1-released-planned-packaged-opensuse">OpenSUSE</a>
and <a href="http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/ubuntu.html">Ubuntu</a>.
Please note that all packages except those for our reference
platform RHEL are a <a
href="http://kolab.org/blog/grote/2013/10/23/call-participation">community
effort</a> and therefore need help from you to work properly."<br>
<br>
What we want to ask is:<br>
- Which of those distributions would be best to pick for Kolab,
other than the reference Red Hat (RHEL)? What would the second best
choice be, right after RHEL, when it comes to use Kolab in a
productive environment?<br>
- We know that CentOS in general is a RHEL clone, so we suppose that
CentOS would be as good for Kolab as RHEL itself, isn't it?<br>
- How about the other native packages for Fedora and Debian, are
they as good as the RHEL/CentOS packages, too, or is it best just to
stick to CentOS for an productive system?<br>
- How is the current state of the experimental packages for
OpenSUSE, are they doing any progress and will be production grade
soon?<br>
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Thanks for any feedback<br>
<br>
Thinker Rix<br>
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