What is the best option with Zimbra

[Myles Braithwaite]

Not on the OS side but on Zimbra's side.

I originally used Fedora Core 5 which was EOL at Zimbra version 4.5.

CentOS, RHEL, and Debian are supported by Zimbra for a much longer time.

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Myles Braithwaite
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On 28-May-08, at 11:20 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: Myles Braithwaite <myles-Ufssi81vwmMSKvlGVnxYRVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
>
> | I am current running CentOS 5.
> | But I would suggest using OpenSUSE and Debian.
> |
> | Ubuntu and Fedora have some problems with EOL.
>
> EOL == End Of Life.
>
> In other words, you are concerned that support will disappear too
> soon.
>
> In fact, Ubuntu 8.04, the current release, is an "LTS" release (long
> term support).  Your concern only applies to non-LTS Ubuntu releases.
>
> CentOS5.x is just RHEL5.x and thus has long term support too.
>
> The Ubuntu 8.04 codebase is generally more recent than CentOS5.x.
>
> Both Fedora and Ubuntu claim that they can do version upgrades.  I'm
> too chicken to try them.  If they did work, the EOL problem might not
> matter.
>
> I'm typing this on a CentOS5.1 machine running sendmail.  I'm
> sshing from a Fedora Core 3 machine (very stale!).
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