I'm a little late to the game here, but I gave the kuadra 11.2 server a quick spin and here are my thoughts. Kind of long sorry.
Hey I just tried the kirux product after trying SME Server 7. I found the Kuadra system to be the exact same system with a lot of addons,
Yes, that is what I see as well. A lot of the addons would make nice contribs in sme 7. There are some differences, like cyrus imap instead of dovecot. What's that really give me? All I could see was the ability to enforce a separate email quota on a per user basis. I thought dovecot 1.0 was supposed to support this as well, but I could be wrong. SME currently uses .99
but he only allows me to have 10 users. Since most of the database configuration is the same (even the wording e-smith on the commands), what would be the command to disable this limited number of accounts?
Again, I see that as well. This is nothing specific or exclusive to the Kaudra system, it is still just using an SME db setting. Use this command to get around that limitation:
config delprop sysconfig MaxUsersPersonal observations about the Kuadra server:
It doesn't matter how pretty you try to make the interface, or how many addons you bundle into this product, it's still based on stolen code from SME Server without the proper copyright information. How can you not give credit to SME Server! Without SME Server, you have no code to base your system off off.
There has been quite a bit of work done to mask the templating system. i.e. moving the templates to a different directory structure, but you still use the same basic calls.
The server operates in the server/gateway mode only. To simulate the serveronly mode, you put the internal and external interfaces in the same subnet. What's that about? I got this info from the Kirux forums. If I mis-understood this point, please correct me.
The server installs Horde 3.0.9, which contains a security vulnerability that is/was being highly exploited. I don't see a way to apply updates to this system? Did I miss something?
Where are the sources for this distro? You can't see what rpms have been installed since the install is done from an image file. At least rpm -qa doesn't give you any output.
What portions of this distro code are really Kirux proprietary? Besides the remote i-bays, most everything installed is already open sourced.
Most of this post has been pretty negative, but there are some good things that the system has: Most of the addons would be excellent contribs for sme 7. IMO some could even go into the base if the Kirux folks decided to work with the dev team.
Sub-domain panel - Being able to easily create sub-domains and set what the default content would be. I didn't do much here, but on the surface, this looks like a good feature. This is probably not that hard to port to SME 7 as an add-on
LDAP GAL Contacts - Being able to have a global address book of contacts without having to create users is good. This is probably not that hard to port to SME 7 as on add-on.
Additional proxy settings and reports - I think if we dig around enough in the forums, we can find that someone has made most of these functions available on SME 7.
Content Filtering - using squidguard - Again, I think most of this is available if we dig.
IM - I think this would be a good contrib for SME 7. Didn't try this on KES.
Don't really like how KES is doing backup, though.
I think it would be and could be very beneficial to all to have the Kirux dev folks work with the SME dev folks to continue to refine and enhance the SME Server. A lot of dev time has been spent by Kirux folks to get their clone system out the door, which could have benefited the development of SME 7 and the contribs.org community. I just think it's fraud to sell a system that you claim as yours without any acknowledgement of where the actual code base is being derived from.
So, that's my two cents worth. I do hope Moses sees this post so he can add some comments and clarifications.
Thanks,
John Bennett
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