Linux for Business Roll Outs
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@scottalanmiller said:
Zentyal for a pure Linux environment would be really weird, though. Running Windows compatibility layers for systems that will talk to each other natively.
I dont think in many offices I can completely eradicate Windows desktops, but I am not against Samba4 and LDAP. I think it works quite well. That aside, I wanted to chime in on Zentyal since I recently tested it.
I finally fully evaluated Zentyal. Waste of my time. Its pretty much an Ubuntu install and web-based UI for people that probably shouldnt be touching a linux server. I can install LDAP and Samba4, and configure them without the help of their UI. The SOGo groupware is lacking because I feel like it should have something for Document Management. SOGo does not have a responsive UI for different viewports. Additionally the IMAP protocol will only support 50 connections, but I am guessing this is a Dovecot setting. Also you can only configure one domain per install which is totally lame.
My next test... LDAP\Samba4 and OX App, despite quite a few negative reviews I am willing to test it out.
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@drewlander said:
My next test... LDAP\Samba4 and OX App, despite quite a few negative reviews I am willing to test it out.
OX App? OpenXchange?
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@drewlander said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Zentyal for a pure Linux environment would be really weird, though. Running Windows compatibility layers for systems that will talk to each other natively.
I dont think in many offices I can completely eradicate Windows desktops, but I am not against Samba4 and LDAP. I think it works quite well. That aside, I wanted to chime in on Zentyal since I recently tested it.
I finally fully evaluated Zentyal. Waste of my time. Its pretty much an Ubuntu install and web-based UI for people that probably shouldnt be touching a linux server. I can install LDAP and Samba4, and configure them without the help of their UI. The SOGo groupware is lacking because I feel like it should have something for Document Management. SOGo does not have a responsive UI for different viewports. Additionally the IMAP protocol will only support 50 connections, but I am guessing this is a Dovecot setting. Also you can only configure one domain per install which is totally lame.
My next test... LDAP\Samba4 and OX App, despite quite a few negative reviews I am willing to test it out.
I haven't tried it in forever but there is another one called ClearOS and I its built on CentOS if I remember correctly.
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I've heard good things about ClearOS. Have not had a chance to play with it myself yet.
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I am installing it right now. Ill let you know.
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@drewlander said:
I am installing it right now. Ill let you know.
I thought ClearOS was supposed to be a Home-User type thing at first. I Spun up an install of it a little bit ago. It's shiny. I haven't actually installed anything with it yet.
I do like how the Market Place has everything laid out though.
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Get ClearOS, It's Awesome
http://image.cdn.ispot.tv/ad/7VMG/clear-eyes-cooling-comfort-featuring-ben-stein-large-7.jpg
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Let me add one more to the mix! http://www.nethserver.org/learn-more/
Was actually looking at the difference between ClearOS & Zentyal and few things looks interesting on the features:
File server with folder auditing- Not sure if others have this
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@scottalanmiller What is so awesome about ClearOS?
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller What is so awesome about ClearOS?
I think his ClearEyes picture was being sarcastic, ha ha ha.
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My biggest issue with the ClearOS platform is how they so heavily push the paid version, without giving much detail on what it does.
ClearOS also has support for Windows built in, not sure about AD.
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@DustinB3403 said:
ClearOS also has support for Windows built in, not sure about AD.
What does "support for Windows" mean?
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I thought you didn't now about AD?
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I found it...
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I liked ClearOS 5, it was a solid system. Pulling in a bunch of standard Linux functionality and putt g a solid GUI on top. Much like putting FreePBX on top of Asterisk.
But they really screwed it up hard when they abandoned CentOS as the base system in favor of their own branch of Fedora.
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@JaredBusch said:
I liked ClearOS 5, it was a solid system. Pulling in a bunch of standard Linux functionality and putt g a solid GUI on top. Much like putting FreePBX on top of Asterisk.
But they really screwed it up hard when they abandoned CentOS as the base system in favor of their own branch of Fedora.
I didn't know that. I think the last time I used it was 5 and I haven't used it since. I didn't realize they switched. Thanks.
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So I tested ClearOS and its not bad. Compared to Zentyal the screens load much faster and config changes happen faster too. Must be something in the validations?? My biggest complaint is I cannot test everything without buying it. Zarafa. etc are not free even in the community edition. Id give it 3 out of 5 stars since I couldnt test all the functionality and because as you stated, this is a wrapper to manage all the packages and features they decide you should run in the distribution linux they choose.
Going back to my plan of testing LDAP\Samba4 and OX App on CentOS.
thx
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