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Linux infrastructure servers for small and midsize businesses

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Conclusions

All four Linux servers for SMBs show promising approaches at first glance, and the NethServer 8 SMB container cluster idea is especially interesting. Unfortunately, this cannot hide the fact that two of the servers appear to be poorly maintained and that NethServer 8 is still waiting for an alpha release. Only the Univention Corporate Server has a lively community and is supported by a reliable company. Anyone looking for a Linux SMB distribution will want to start there. Alternatively, you could always patch together an infrastructure yourself from a state-of-the-art Linux distribution with UI management tools like Cockpit, and then do without commercial support.

Infos

  1. ClearOS: https://www.clearos.com
  2. NethServer: https://www.nethserver.org
  3. Zentyal: https://zentyal.com/community/
  4. UCS: https://www.univention.com IE:

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