I agree whole-heartedly with everything you just said. Webmin and
webmin-like tools are excellent and will get even better as better
error-checking is written into the code. The biggest problem with Webmin
is that it is all done in perl. I'd like to see the main system rewritten
using J2EE (at least servlets) on Tomcat. I believe it would be much
faster (yes, Bevis, I said that Java would run faster than something). I
was comparing SSH to the GUI admin tools of lesser-fortunate OS'es like
Windows Terminal Services and Remotely imPossible. Things of that nature.
Web GUI's are where it's at for GUI over the internet, although the CLI
is still much more powerful. GUI makes it clean and neat and nifty... but
there ain't no grep, awk, perl, cut, {insert favorite CLI tool} in a web
GUI. Note that Novell NetWare will is heading toward complete Web GUI
administration as well. They have seen that light... and others. Look
for Novell to treat Linux as a normal desktop OS. I have heard relyable
rumors of Desktop admin tools for Linux Desktops in the very near future.
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:07:08 -0600
"Michael Hipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You make good points, Matthew. But seems to me that something Webmin-ish
> should be able to run over most any link. Webmin, imho, is the best
> candidate for a be-all administrator's gui tool. (Its many current
> shortcomings notwithstanding).
>
> But on the desktop I wish the likes of Mandrake, et al would stop
> mucking with their very functional but utterly oddball things like
> HardDrak and such. If we could put all their efforts into Kde Control
> Center the issue could shortly be put into the "solved problem" file.
> above URL.
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