Web-based business server

[Leen Toelen]

Hi,

There are a lot of graphical configuration tools of course, and some
distributions make their own. But the advatage of a web-based management
interface is that it is easy to start. I know I can install XMing from y
windows host, and start synaptic from there, or log in with ssh and
configure some config files, and later reload the services. But I learned
this by years of using various Linux versions.
I guess this is the advantage of a lot of appliances. They come with a
tightly integrated and mostly web-based management interface: just plugin in
the power, configure an ip address and point your browser to it. Easy
enough.

Regards,
Leen

On 9/4/06, Steve Barnhart <stb52988 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's Suse w/YaST which is *kinda* close to that, but I don't know
> if a web-based interface exists, but all of that stuff is configured
> with graphical tools or text-based (ncurses) tools.
>
> On 9/4/06, Leen Toelen <toelen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been a system administrator in a couple of startups now, and
> > something that seems to be missing in the Linux universe is a very
> simple
> > getting-started, all-in-one server distribution. There is a real need
> for a
> > server OS where you simply pop in a CD, answer some questions, and have
> a
> > working ldap server, email server with spam checking, dns server and so
> on.
> > The feature set should be basic network management (dns/dhcp/samba
> > domainserver/samba file server/email server), a web-based management
> > interface (no need to learn all the config file quirks), and a web
> interface
> > for some common tools (look at google for domains, squirrelmail, hula,
> > spreadsheets). There have been projects before to make some of these
> > services working together, but most of them were not (or could not be)
> > integrated in the distributions. Such a distribution should be headless,
> and
> > only managed using the web interface.
> >
> > Are there any plans in this direction, what are your opinions about it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Leen Toelen
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Steve
>
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