[TriLUG] Linux Distribution for server Opinions

[Steve Kuekes]

Sorry to change the focus from BBQ to Linux, hopefully a discussion on 
server distributions won't be so controversial.

I'm finally replacing my 4 year old email server at work with something 
more up to date.   I think its running old Redhat 9 (pre-Fedora)

This will be a server that is on a dedicated T-1 link to the internet 
hosted on our in-house corporate network.

These are the applications that I'm planning on running on the server.

* DNS
* Dovecot, postfix, mysql for an IMAP email server for multiple domains
* Openvpn for secure remote access to our internal network
* Webmail access to the IMAP server (I'm looking for a good open source 
webmail package, let me know what you think about this too.)

I don't care about GUI management apps like the Fedora system-config-??? 
apps as I manage the system from SSH and the command line, mostly.

I've been using Fedora for my other Linux servers, but I'm looking to 
see if there is something that is better.  I've had problems with yum 
getting access to update servers for older versions.  It also seems that 
Fedora doesn't have standard rpm's for dovecot and postfix using mysql 
as the authorization and configuration database.  Everyone seems to be 
using Ubuntu, so maybe I should join the party there??

Thanks
-- 
Steve Kuekes

Physicians Pharmacy Alliance
http://www.rxhealthcare.org