Topic: Similar to e-smith?

[Arby Edi]

Does anyone know of any other distro that is as easy, useful, and complete as e-smith?  Or another route: Does any one know of any packages or scripts that can be loaded on another linux system that gives the same functions as server-manager?  

Just curious.

Arby.

[Paul]

No, Thats why we all use e-smith.

[Tom Haynes]

E-Smith is an impressive piece of work. It does quite well the things it sets out to do.

If you are looking, I would suggest you look at ClarkConnect. With webmin and the CC interface, management is pretty intuitive and easy. There is a great support community.

I have two CC boxes and one E-Smith box in use at work. If I were setting up an office that I would administer, I would probably use CC. If I were setting up an office for them to administer, I would probably recommend E-Smith.

[Scott Smith]

I'd pretty much concur with Tom. CC has some advantages over Mitel in some areas, but for rock solid brain dead simple management I'd stick with Mitel.

[sam]

firstly I nearly fell on the floor laughing at what Scott said. Its absolutely true to the core!!
Rock Solid: I've had a e-smith 4.12 box up for the last 2 or so years and it services about 140 workstations at my school. Interestingly I set it up in about 10mins and only on a PIII dell with an ide drive (20gig). It hasn't missed a beat since then. 24hrs a day 7 days a week
Brain dead management: You can teach a 6 yr old to admin a sme box. (I came to life as a programmer when I discovered mysql+php and this was only because of the php+mysql behind webmail.)

Another interesting point is that I've noticed that the support for the sme box is growing very quickly and there are contributions from everywhere. This makes it easy for brain deads like me.

sam
long live 'rolled up open source'