Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Eric Dunbar]

On 03/02/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:58:38 -0500
> "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > > Is there a licencing issues that prevents it from living in the Ubuntu
> > > repositories?
> >
> > Don't have a clue. :)
> >
> > Since it's mucking around with a wide variety of software, I suppose
> > it's entirely possible one of the modules or whatever is licensed oddly.
>
> My understanding is that the Debian and Ubuntu Webmin packages are no
> longer maintained. I seem to recall there was a collective sigh of relief
> on the developers' mailing list at the time ;-)

So does this mean that the source from Webmin is no longer relevant to Ubuntu?

> I don't think there's a licensing issue - but there was, umm, some
> criticism of Webmin IIRC... </understatement>

Is there an alternative solution for us mere mortals (i.e.
non-hardcore computer geeks) to controlling the system/servers from a
central user interface (especially, a web-browser accessible one)?