I know I'm almost always the "odd man out" on issues like this one - the
squeaky wheel, so to speak - but I too would like to see us additionally
support Debian (or Ubuntu), as they are gaining in popularity... and I
like the idea of being a supporter/developer on a mail system that is
gaining in popularity (as QMT is).
That being said, I see no reason to try to support it with a binary
build, as I fully support the idea of moving towards a "_*QMT as an
appliance*_" approach (which is to say as a virtual machine that has
multiple storage options -- on the VM, on the host system, or even on a
NAS.) As an appliance, we could run QMT on Fedora Core 1, if we so
chose... (not that we would, but as an appliance, the choice of
"maintained OS" becomes far less important!)
Personally, this is the way I'm moving (virtualization) -- not only for
my QMT, but also for my apache (HTTP) and DNS/DHCP/Auth systems...
Just my 2-cents worth...
Dan McAllister
IT4SOHO
PS: I use Ubuntu 10.4 LTS as a desktop on old laptops -- other than HD
media (where they just don't have enough horsepower) and some Windoze
Media (where there just aren't codecs that I can find), these little
laptops do everything a kid normally wants to do on a computer -- and on
hardware that costs less than $200! (I have tried CentOS on these same
laptops & have far more issues with media than with Ubuntu -- haven't
had time to figure out why, I'm just satisfied that there IS such a thing!)
BTW: I use CentOS 5 on most of my older servers (having migrated to
CentOS from Fedora 8 some years ago), and CentOS 6 on my newer ones...
as I have pointed out on several occasions here, I have had NO PROBLEMS
building QMT on CentOS 6, and don't personally care about the lack of
the toaster-admin web-GUI... in fact, several people have pointed out
that a change to the php.ini file could fix those problems, but I
haven't tested it out because I simply don't use the GUI interface to
begin with, and I just haven't gotten around to it!
As you can see, I don't drink anyone's Kool-Aid... the RIGHT tool in the
RIGHT place, regardless of who its from or what update mechanism is
used! :-)
On 2/14/2012 12:58 AM, Khan Mohamed Ashraf wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Eric Broch <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Good call. I've been using the CentOS/QMT combination since 2005 and
wouldn't think of any other.
On 2/13/2012 10:43 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> I've done a good deal of thinking about this, and think that it'd be
> best to run it by the community at large (not just the
developers) for
> everyone's consideration. This is not really new, and is not much
> different than what Jake had committed to some time ago. I just want
> to be sure that everyone is on board with this, and explain a
few things............
Good news I should say. CentOS I've been using for long now. It is my
preferred GNU/Linux server OS.
What about Ubuntu server, would the team consider getting qmailtoaster
to work with it? If not why?
Ashraf
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