Web-based business server

[Toby Smithe]

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?

I would love something like this; e-mail servers are a pain to set up
when you want to use MySQL authentication. However, I do believe that
the easy LAMP set-up offered with Dapper was a step in the right
direction.


On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:12 -0400, Steve Barnhart 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.

Graphical tools are no use for a headless server, unless one is doing
remote X sessions, but that is a waste of resources. SSH-ing in is a
solution, I agree, but not what the OP was looking for.
-- 
Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com>
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