On 10/20/06, Steven Harms <<a href="mailto:thisdyingdream@gmail.com">thisdyingdream@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Before I go through redundancy of work, is there a gui interface that is supported on ubuntu (or will be (edgy =<)) that will configure apache, postfix, nagios,ldap etc?  Or if there is a current team that is working on a implementation?  I checked out the ubuntu-server team but I am looking specifically at creating a modular pygtk based implementation and I don't believe they are heading in the same direction. </blockquote></div> I may be wrong, but as far as I know ubuntu-server is installed without graphical support, as a text-console-only server. I found myself installing the base X subsystems (only the libraries) to be able to access the server with X clientes (for instance, with nxclient). So I think that before implementing a GUI tool, we should talk about whether to have X installed on a server or not. I see some advantages of having a server without X - smaller memory footprint, less things to crash, etc. On the other hand, easy of configuration (specially for newbies and casual users) suffers. There are two ways out of this IMHO: either implement a easy GUI (as suggested by Steve), which will require X installed; or implement a good Web administration tool, covering at least the basic "LAMP" server - which does not require X on the server. I don't know if either of these alternatives can be considered as goals for ubuntu-server project though. -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos blog: <a href="http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com">http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com</a> blog: <a href="http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com">http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com </a> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@gmail.com">carribeiro@gmail.com</a> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@yahoo.com">carribeiro@yahoo.com</a>