Ubuntu's probably a good choice for this application. It's cheap and well supported and reasonably bullet-proof. One way to approach this problem is to set up a "headless" box and do all the administration remotely. Once it is set up, the users could treat it as an appliance and not have to worry about it. I haven't done this myself (I still just tinker with Linux). Some discussion of the various approaches is here: http://ubuntuforums....read.php?t=690895

HowToForge has a nice tutorial on installing Ubuntu Server 7.04 - http://www.howtoforg...t_setup_ubuntu704

The advantage for a non-profit in going with a Linux-based solution rather than Windows Home Server or the like is the freedom from MS's Client Access Licenses and so forth. But a good article on building a $311 WHS box is here: http://www.homeserve...-server_2871.html I have no personal experience with WHS, either.

Hope this helps a little. Good luck!

Cheers,
Scott.

I was thinking about the hardware quoted.

If one is only thinking about using their software, then unless they offer something compelling, it probably makes more sense to go with something with larger market share (to have a better chance of someone being able to understand it).

But, honestly, unless someone is willing to baby sit it for free, it's probably going to cost them some money. I don't think there really are any set-and-forget departmental servers that exist yet. (I certainly could be wrong, though.)

Cheers,
Scott.