BEst Linux distro for Zimbra Complete Version ?

[vincen]

Hi,

I'm going to install a Complete Zimbra server on a Dedibox (Dedibox - Votre serveur dédié pour 29,99 Euros / mois trafic illimit&eacute) dedicated server and I need advice about best linux distro to use

Here is what I can select:

CentOS 5.1 (32 bits)
CentOS 5.1 (64 bits)

Debian 4.0r2 (32 bits)
Debian 4.0r2 (64 bits)

Fedora Core 8 (64 bits)

Gentoo 2007.0 (32 bits)

Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS (32 bits)
Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS (64 bits)

Thanks for all your valuable tips

Vincèn

[phoenix]

My recommendation would be CentOS 5.x for a stable, long term supported o/s.

[vincen]

Originally Posted by phoenix

My recommendation would be CentOS 5.x for a stable, long term supported o/s.

Oky thanks for so quick advice. I install 64 bits version of CentOS ? and then Redhat Enterprise 5 64 bits version of Zimbra, right ?

Thanks

Vincèn

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by vincen

Oky thanks for so quick advice. I install 64 bits version of CentOS ? and then Redhat Enterprise 5 64 bits version of Zimbra, right ?

Yes, that would be correct.

[quietas]

Is CentOS actually supported now. I thought it was one of the OS's that had Non-Official support. RHEL 4/5, SLES 10, Mac OSX, and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are still the only one's listsed in the docs. At least that is what is listed for the supported Network Edition and what I gather he wants from "Complete version".

If you want the Free Open Source, there is a community build that gets updated frequently for 8.04 that dijichi2 normally assembles.

[SOLVED] ZCS 5.0.7 on Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS

[webman]

Indeed. At the beginning of the year, Zimbra says CentOS is NOT supported: CentOS is NOT supported

Personally I would use Ubuntu LTS. It's fast, has great software repositories, commercially supported by Ubuntu/Canonical, and supported by Zimbra.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by quietas

Is CentOS actually supported now. I thought it was one of the OS's that had Non-Official support.

CentOS is not supported (officially or un-officially) for Network Edition but it's a binary compatible build of RHEL4 or RHEL5 and will run those versions of Zimbra perfectly well. I'm assuming the o/p was intending to use the OSS build and for that, my advice, would be CentOS5.

Originally Posted by webman

Indeed. At the beginning of the year, Zimbra says CentOS is NOT supported: CentOS is NOT supported

The reason for that post was a mistaken belief that CentOS had a problem with Scalar::Util on 5.0-, this was incorrect and was a problem with perl. This post clarifies the matter, to quote from that post:

We apologize for initially declaring that CentOS was the root of the issue. The issue is NOT CentOS, but rather Perl. We were incorrect to jump to the conclusion quickly.

If CentOS is installed with the standard repositories then there's no difference in running Zimbra on that as opposed to RHEL.