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Originally Posted by gilly05  I kept reading in the Ubuntu press releases that 8.04 would have Zimbra support. What exactly does that mean? Will Zimbra be a package in Ubuntu's apt repos (apt-get install zimbra would be awesome!). |
I'm pretty sure it DOESN'T mean that. There is just too much to do to get a good Zimbra install--DNS configuration and domain/hostname choice, among others, to make it a generic turnkey install. It would certainly be possible to create a special install package with wizards to set up the necessary pieces (ask you for desired hostname, IPs, net configuration, etc. etc., but POSSIBLE is a long way from EASY. Creating that installer would be a project in its own right.
No, "supported" means that the Zimbra team does a full-on QA of running the server on that OS, and tweaks their own install package as necessary to play nicely with the distro. The commitment to do so for 8.04 is consistent with their policy of only supporting the LTS versions in order to have a package that will get necessary security updates, etc; but it's not going to happen overnight by any stretch.