Migrate to Kolab: Which OS is best choice?

[Matt Moldvan]

My recommendation is the most recent version of CentOS.  Fedora is great
for cutting edge (love it on my desktops), but on a production system
CentOS or RHEL (if you have the money) will be your best bet for stability
and maintainability.  Plus you'll learn some valuable administration
skills...

We run parts of the Kolab infrastructure at work for a 65k+ user base on
CentOS.  The OS does not present many issues, and there are many many
guides out there on system admin concepts and troubleshooting if necessary.


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Thinker Rix <thinkerix at rocketmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> The time has come and we will finally now migrate to Kolab.
> 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:
> "Native packages are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux<http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/rhel.html>,
> CentOS <http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/centos.html>, Fedora<http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/fedora.html>,
> Debian <http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/debian.html> and
> experimental packages are available for OpenSUSE<https://kolab.org/news/2012/12/11/kolab-3-rc1-released-planned-packaged-opensuse>and
> Ubuntu <http://docs.kolab.org/installation-guide/ubuntu.html>. Please
> note that all packages except those for our reference platform RHEL are a community
> effort <http://kolab.org/blog/grote/2013/10/23/call-participation> and
> therefore need help from you to work properly."
>
> What we want to ask is:
> - 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?
> - 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?
> - 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?
> - How is the current state of the experimental packages for OpenSUSE, are
> they doing any progress and will be production grade soon?
>
> Thanks for any feedback
>
> Thinker Rix
>
>
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