On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Ned Slider <ned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/03/14 04:05, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anybody gotten this working?
> >>>>
> >>>> By the way, this is CentOS 6.5.
> >>> If you are starting from scratch building a mail server you might want
> >>> to look at SME server or ClearOS where webmail works out of the box.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It would be my personal preference that we help people run things on
> >> CentOS rather than always recommending another distribution.
> >
> > SME isn't exactly an 'other' distribution, and ClearOS wouldn't be if
> > CentOS6 had had a timely release. They are the same code underneath,
> > just already configured to work as installed and with a few additions.
> >
>
> Whilst I understand why Johnny would prefer to be able to offer a
> CentOS-based solution rather than signposting users towards other
> products, I must admit I kind of agree with Les here.
>
> My initial thought to Johnny's reply was why would CentOS want to
> reinvent this particular wheel, looking to solve a problem that has
> already been solved, just not by CentOS.
>
> I thought that CentOS's space was to be plug compatible with RHEL. Or has
that changed?
As such any upgrade to a package that also in RHEL breaks that paradigm.
Pragmatically that is going to happen in the hobbyist arena, but probably
should not happen in the professional (for want of a better word) arena.
Cheers,
Cliff
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