Sheevaplug - Ubuntu 9.10 - Wine - Mercury32 EMail Server ??

[Jex]

Thinking about buying a Sheevaplug..

Could I install Ubuntu 9.10 and manage it via VNC/Remote Desktop ?
Install Wine and Mercury32 Email Server ?

I'm currently running Mercury32 on a windows 2003 server, but if it would work on a Sheevaplug.. I'd move across.

Comments and suggestions welcome

Many Thanks

[fragfutter]

it makes no sense to manage an embedded system with a graphical desktop.

* use ssh and commandline tools
* if you realy need graphical stuff install a X11 Server on your Desktop and use X11 forwarding
* linux has a lot of fine MTA (mail transport agents). i suggest postfix + dovecot
* i have no idea if wine compiles on ARM. But i'm sure if it does it will be slow as hell

[ruidc]

... and according to previous threads specific to this point, Ubuntu 9.10/Karmic Koala is not supported on the Sheevaplug's ARM - but other distributions including Debian and FreeBSD, upon which Ubuntu is based - are.

[Jex]

Thanks for the replies.

The reason I want mercury is I have it very well configured and it does things that I've not been able to find on linux platform.
The main one being transaction filtering.

Thanks.

[UnaClocker]

Wine runs the windows apps natively, and simply provides the libraries and such that those apps are expecting. As such, x86 apps will not run on an ARM CPU..