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[Bruno Girin]

On 26/09/11 22:29, James Thomas wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2011 10:18 PM, "Bruno Girin" <brunogirin at gmail.com 
> <mailto:brunogirin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 26/09/11 21:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope<alan at popey.com 
> <mailto:alan at popey.com>>  wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>> Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial "want" of many (including myself).
> >>
> >> I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to 
> become an itch :(
> >>
> >>> I'll refer you to this spec:-
> >>>
> >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer
> >>
> >> Ah, lovely. I agreed with it largely until this....
> >> "The interface will be web based"
> >> And then I wanted to curl up in the foetal position and cry.
> >>
> >> BEWARE RANT AHOY!
> >>
> >> <rant>
> >> Why do people always want these things web based? I'd much rather
> >> prefer something that works simply in a nice easy gui that I could
> >> VNC/whatever into. In order to make things like this web based, you
> >> either have to lose some flexibility and/or can make it really hard to
> >> report back to the user what actually is going on. I've never really
> >> found a web based configuration gui I liked (and I write them for
> >> work).
> >
> > Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all 
> the desktop GUI libraries on the server, which means that the server 
> stays a server and can be a fairly lean machine that doesn't burn CPU 
> to paint a desktop (important for a small office where running a 
> powerful server 24x7 can be prohibitively expensive and/or noisy). And 
> considering the size and complexity of GUI code these days, adding a 
> GUI to a server is likely to increase the potential for bug several folds.
> >
> > I hear what you say about web front-ends but balancing the pros and 
> cons, I would still go for a web front-end, mainly to keep the server 
> lightweight. This doesn't preclude a standard GUI front-end on client 
> machines though.
> >
> > Bruno
>
> Could you not administer a server with a client on a desktop elsewhere?
> That way you could keep the server lean and you could design it as 
> such that it could be installed on any OS desktop opening a more 
> comfortable route for windows / apple users?
>
You could. But you then have to distribute the GUI to all clients so you 
might as well have a web front-end. One doesn't preclude the other though.

Bruno

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