On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:07 -0600, Tim Ferguson wrote:
Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until I get that fixed I just thought I'd ask.
I'm running Mailman on two servers which are running Gentoo Linux, and everything works just fine.
Basically, any distribution worth its salt should be OK. Almost by definition a "Linux distribution" is (among other things) an open source support network. Any package or build which becomes part of the official distribution is, by virtue of its inclusion in the distribution, configured to 'just work'. If it doesn't work, you, or someone, has already, or will soon file a bug against the package and the maintainer of the package will fix it. That's the way these things work.
The requirements for running Mailman aren't particularly strenuous - Python, a few libraries, a standard Linux FSH, and perhaps one or two other pretty standard things. Any dependencies should be handled by the distribution's package management system, which is SOP for all Linux distributions.
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