System configuration

[William Park]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:45:33PM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > I though linuxconf was the bees knees! Where d'it go ?
> 
> The plans were vastly more ambitious than the outcome, and the project
> crumbled under the complexity.
> 
> The complexity of building extension modules was such that only the most
> devoted of developers were prepared to put the effort into building
> them.
> 
> Interest in Linuxconf collapsed shortly thereafter, alongside the
> failure of similar ambitions in Caldera's COAS system.
> 
> The tools that are of ongoing relevance are:
> 
>  a) Webmin, which has an easier system for integrating in modules
>     written in Perl, instead of in C++, and

I could write Linuxconf in shell (and its friends), if they paid me.

> 
>  b) cfengine, which has no GUI, but which is instead a powerful language
>     for describing your intended system configuration, and "fixes"
>     discrepancies.

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