Once upon a time (before being known by its current name), Zentyal was a very promising product based on Debian.
Unfortunately, at some point the developers behind the product decided that it was best to base the product on some derivative instead of Debian, and currently it’s not possible to deploy Zentyal unless you’re willing to switch to some distribution that isn’t Debian.
So considering that this kind of solution can be extremely valuable for small businesses (specially those that have no permanent IT staff), I was wondering: what’s the Zentyal equivalent for Debian?
Some additional notes (in hope of being able to get better answers) :
- Yes, I realize that Zentyal is “just” a web interface for setting up and managing standard sevices such as Samba. And yes, I know how to set up a samba server by hand (i.e., without additional configuration tools)
- I’m not looking to develop a Zentyal alternative. It’s a project that was developed by a team of several programmers over the course of more than 5 years (a quarter million lines of code according to ohloh metrics). I just want to know it there’s something like that, made for Debian, and ready to use.
