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[Michael Zoet]

> Guides != Exact instructions.
>
> The point I made was that there were ERRORS (not infrastructural
> differences) that made the guide bad.

OK. But maybe there are too much docs about the topic available? I read
really good ones.

>
> I refuse to believe that setting up guides for a generalized situation
> isn't
> feasible or reasonable. There just aren't that many wild cards to throw
> into
> the mix of your average company's IT infrastructure.

It is already there! You just have to install the packages you need. In
Ubuntu these packages have reasonable defaults, that you can use to change
your config. Also some one posted the link to the Ubuntu server guide!
These are easily adoptable to your needs. But for complex scenarios you
can not distribute a general configuration.

>
> I'm sure you could write tons of books about a lot of topics in my
> suggestion, but really that makes no sense. Pick some general settings and
> give some guidance on how to tweak and/or a suggested reading material and
> be done with it.

See above :-).

>
> If this is impossible, someone will have to work really hard to explain to
> me how you can get packaged solutions like Zimbra to work well.
>

I never installed Zimbra so I do not know how good (or bad) this is. For
what I know and experienced is that all these "easy installed" programs
have draw backs when live goes on and things are getting more complex in
the company.


Michael