Yes. Their also needs to be more "user friendly" admin tools for the "casual" user like in Windows or Mac. When this happens adoption will become higher. Think of all the collage students who would like to use OpenSolaris but managing it is just to expensive (time). Get the collage/high school students and you get the next generation of business owners.
Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2005 11:15 am Subject: RE: [osol-discuss] Admin tools coming? > > Solaris 10 and Express include two admin guis, the java based > > "smc" gui and > > the web based "webmin" gui. To configure your system to run > > webmin, run > > /usr/sfw/bin/webminsetup and answer it's questions. To run > > smc, simply login to a desktop session and run /usr/sbin/smc. > > Yes - but one of the real culprits is, that there's no "nice-and- > dirty"command line tool for doing things, HP-UX has sam, AIX has > smit(ty), Linux > (Suse) has yast (which works in commandline too)... > > It's a major pain to set up a system remotely with only telnet/ssh > accessand "manually" with useradd etc. > > It would be REALLY nice to have a curses based tool for admin tasks. > > > Just my EUR 0.02 > > > Greetz > > -- > Markus >
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