Fedora Linux

[JoeHill]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:23:48 -0500
Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> 
> As a techie I whole-hearted agree here.  Webmin is a beautiful package
> (although I could really wish they had chosen a better front end than
> http) but would fail miserably for what I think David was after. 
> Marketing to desktop users means marketing to people who aren't likely
> to want to configure apache, postfix, bind, sendmail or any of the
> other dozens of packages webmin supports.  They want things like "what
> devices are connected", "how do i configure my network connection",
> "where do I change the default screensaver", "where can I configure my
> proxies" and other such things.

Isn't that in there? I'm looking at my Webmin interface for my server
here and it's even got an entry for software installation/removal,
System Time, printer administration, hardware config for CD Burner,
Network config (including interfaces and routing), VPN, etc. etc. Ok,
the screensaver ain't there... ;-)

> I think a really promising package along these lines is the
> combination of the GNOME Control Center (since around 2.4) and Gnome
> System Tools. In some ways the jury is still very much out with
> respect to GST.  "Just working" with each distribution is not an easy
> task, especially when you have the lofty goal of not destroying the
> config files or running a parallel "configuration database" (a la the
> well intentioned, but ill-fated linuxconf).

There I'm with ya. I don't think Webmin, at least as it stands, is
enough for the total newb. I really hope that Gnome can take the lead on
this one and provide a much-needed standardized interface. I don't see
why the purists would rant too much, you can still edit the config files
by hand if you want, but the "wizard" is there if you want it.

BTW, on the funny side of things, Verisign sold the domain name
"localhost.com", so a lot of people trying to use Webmin are getting
some commercial site now! Good ol' Verisign...is there *anything* they
can't do wrong?

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