Server GUI (Was Re: Mac look alike)
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Nov 30 10:36:18 UTC 2009
Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Alan McKay wrote:
>
>
>> For server admin install Webmin.
>>
>> Not sure why it is never included in any of the distros but it is easy
>> to install.
>>
>
> Because it does Bad Things to config files, and neatly creates another
> surface for attack.
>
> In general, Webmin's fine if that's the only way you intend to
> configure anything. But if you want to also be able to configure things
> by hand, you can't use webmin.
>
> Last time I checked, there was a new ontender which was preferred over
> Webmin, but I don't know what it was.
>
Whatever it was, it was broken according to webmin users because it
replaced webmin.
What might be a good idea is to come up with a 'standard' list of
components and configurations (see Ubuntu Domain Server thread on the
Ubuntu developers list) and then create some guis/commandline tools for
that standard. Now if someone could also port kiosktool over to KDE4 or
we get KDE 3.5.x again in Lucid....
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