Quick few questions re Zentyal...Sluggish? and Free?

[christian]

Sure Zentyal can be sometimes a bit slow at least for what concerns GUI 
- It definitely has not been designed to run on small CPU (like Atom)
- Having added graphic user interface on server itself whoich makes user feel that this is the right way to manage Zentyal is even worst on such small platform.
- Because of some design choices, whatever you CPU, some steps are slow (like connecting to GUI first time or accessing dashboard depending on widgets...

However:
- aside admin GUI aspects, while running, Zentyal is not slow (although, again, not design for small platform)  even if it consumes more resources than equivalent platform (in term of feature) based on same packages without the Zentyal stuff around (*)
- significant progresses have been made already 
- there is room for improvement  I'm sure Zentyal team listen and makes effort in this direction

(*) before running Zentyal, I installed almost identical platform on FitPC almost without any problem: FW, mail (postifx, dovecot, amavis), squid + filter... but went for light HTTP server for webmail and didn't add any admin interface 

[robb]

The 'slowness' of the webgui in Zentyal 2.x is by design. This is because services are started and stopped sequentially.

In the new beta ( and version 3.0 to be in September) the speed is/will be a LOT (understatement!) better.

I hope you will have the patience to sit out version 2.2 and wait until you can move to Zentyal 3.0...

[Escorpiom]

The issue with the slow admin interface seems about the only mayor issue with Zentyal, as anything else runs perfectly.
Robb is right about sitting out 2.2 and making the move to Zentyal 3.0 in a few months, but I do hope that the upgrade will be smooth, not like the previous migration tool.

Cheers.