Re: seeking a platform for a hotspot and a mail server

[Matthias Güntert <MatzeGuentert () gmx de>]

Hi 

I think this is in general a good way to go, but I would like to advise
you against fedora when it comes to virtualization, CentOS maybe a
better choice for you as the devs since of F9 have taken Xen support out
of the kernel, which means F9 to F10 can only run as a guest not as a
host.

Also you may look at pfSense as a mikrotik replacement, they have ready
to run vmware appliances and it is FreeBSD based... What exactly should
your "mail" solution be able to do? "Simple" mail relaying or do you
really need this kind of resource intensive collaboration platform? If
no, then postfix + any IMAP solution like cyrus-imapd may fix you up?

Regards,
Matthias 


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 20:19 +0100, Idowu Odigie wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am trying to setup a mail server and a hotspot for the internet in a
> LAN. What do you think about the idea of installing fedora on a
> system, then installing a virtualization software (which one do you
> suggest?) in order to install mikrotik OS for the hotspot. Afterwards
> I can install a mail exchange server - which mail server do you
> suggest?
>
> Thanks!