Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sat Aug 2 18:22:01 UTC 2008


On Saturday 02 August 2008 12:29, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> Olá Anthony e a todos.
>
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:14:06 Anthony Watters wrote:
> > Preconfigure the thing, give it a GUI web admin, make it easy for someone
> > to set up a Web server/Webmail/File server either in server only mode or
> > server and gateway mode. All I should need to set up is a couple of
> > users, provide the IP address and say whether I want RAID and maybe how I
> > want the partitions configured (but with suggested recommendations along
> > the way at every step).
>
> Running the risk of being sent to /dev/null by many of the members of this
> list, but why not improve something like webmin? It works for me, when
> configuring Postfix and Dovecot.
>
> Sure its not the safest software around (I once mess up my rc levels, but
> thats mostly my fault not the software), but it can certainly ease or
> reduce the barrier entrance for this use case..

Did you look at ebox?  It's meant to be our safer equivalent.

Scott K




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