<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Personally,<br>Since you have been out of the Linux world for awhile, I'd recommend that you consider starting by using one of Julians pre-made vm's. That way you would be using a pre-configured vm that everyone could easily comment on if you need help. Putting the system into "production" will involve editing a few text files. But there are a number of folks on the list that can help you out.<br><br>If you build your system, there will always be a question about how or what process you used to configure the system, permissions, how did you compile your packages, etc.<br><br>We use Julian's 64 bit CentOS vm and other than a few custom text edits requested by our Support team, Zendto is pretty stock and it just works ( thank you Julian). Files under 2BG have been pretty much trouble free. If you're going to be sending files over 2GB, I'd read up on the forum to get up to speed on the issues others are having. <br><br>Updates for CentOS and Zendto involve just one command ( yum update) from a command line that can be accessed via ssh or via the Vmware Host console.<br><br>Just a few points for your consideration. I'm sure that others can contribute additional thoughts for you to consider.<br><br>Brad<br><br><br>>>> Jonathan Barker <jonathanbarker@quinnemanuel.com> 10/06/11 6:55 AM >>><br>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I?m really interested in the zend.to application, but i haven?t touched a linux box in over 10 years. We?re a mostly Windows/AD environment. I was able to get the Virtual Machine installed on our ESX server, and i started a plain Ubuntu install to get some GUI going to make patching, editing, and general administration a little easier considering my Windows background. The problem is that without a step-by-step, i?m going to have problems. For instance, with the VM, it took me about 15 minutes to figure out how to edit a config file. Should i stick with the VM (will patching be simple?) or should i keep plugging along on the Ubuntu install?<o:p></o:p></p></div></jonathanbarker@quinnemanuel.com></body></html>