I work from home a lot and some of my servers are beyond physical reach, so a resident management program with a GUI is one more program I will not install.
But... A small resident server with it's own IP stack running along side the Ubuntu installation that has a chance of surviving a system crash or hack preferably in ROM would be a good thing. Jim On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Neal McBurnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:39:37AM -0500, Luke wrote: > > Some have suggested taking eBox and making a fully customized Ubuntu > version. > > I'm not into actual development now, so I don't know what kind of effort > this > > would be. Judging by the screenshots of eBox, this could be a way to go. > > Note that the eBox project itself used to be based on Debian, and is > now re-basing on top of Ubuntu, which is great. > > > One question I have: Is a web interface really the way to go? Will > enterprise > > users go for having to have a web server to run admin services? In my > personal > > view, it would be more reasonable to develop a program for Ubuntu that > could > > have a GUI front made for it. An actual program is more pro than a web > > interface. > > See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI for more on this > stuff. I'd say that an X11-based GUI on a server box would be a > security/maintenance concern to more enterprise admins than a > single-purpose, hardened web server (like what eBox needs). And note > that you don't get 5 years of support for the X stuff on LTS like you > do for server stuff. > > > Try to input on everything you feel you can contribute to (suggestions, > help, > > etc.) Thanks. > > I don't think I've really met you before, Luke. Welcome! Can you tell us > some > more about you (perhaps in a separate "Introduction" thread)? > > Neal McBurnett http://mcburnett.org/neal/ > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- http://ls.net
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