<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> >usually for quite specific "server" based jobs. where the creators don't want them<br>>played with</span><br>
<br><div>not playing with them is exactly the point they were made for. They are relatively simple to set up, easy to maintain and try to cover 99% of use cases, as for the things you don't want just disable them and for the 1% set up a vm. They are perfect for SME' s that don't want the cost of windows or the cost of someone constantly fiddling with linux to "improve it" <br>
<br></div><div>and they aren't breaking the GPL in any way or even providing a completely closed solution. It's still Linux so you can dig around in the file system and change things around if you wish. But you'd be completely bat poop crazy to do so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>the other similar product to look at is <a href="http://www.zentyal.org/">http://www.zentyal.org/</a> which is ubuntu/ debian based</div>