Ubuntu Domain Server

[Morten Kjeldgaard]

On 20/10/2009, at 15.35, Derek Broughton wrote:

>
>>> I will never understand why a server GUI would improve anything?
>
> I will never understand why elitists hate GUIs.  A good UI should  
> improve
> things by absolutely preventing misconfiguration.

That's because the GUI often gets in the way of good sysadm practices  
and also automated configuration such as cfengine and the like.

One example is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which used to be a simple 3  
line file that in karmic has been replaced with a complex and  
intransparent resolvconf system, that is part of the network  
configuation gui and clobbers /etc/resolv.conf at every boot.

There's a huge difference maintaining a single-user system on a laptop  
and hundreds of workstations.

-- Morten