On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: <snip>
> Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial "want" of many (including myself). I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to become an itch :( > I'll refer you to this spec:- > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer Ah, lovely. I agreed with it largely until this.... "The interface will be web based" And then I wanted to curl up in the foetal position and cry. BEWARE RANT AHOY! <rant> Why do people always want these things web based? I'd much rather prefer something that works simply in a nice easy gui that I could VNC/whatever into. In order to make things like this web based, you either have to lose some flexibility and/or can make it really hard to report back to the user what actually is going on. I've never really found a web based configuration gui I liked (and I write them for work). In complete honesty, you'd want a home/small office server to have a "desktop" type gui anyway, as the target audience probably isn't going to be particularly au fait with the console if things break, which is the only place you can go to fix something if your webserver/database provider conks out otherwise. </rant> <snip> > Others have worked on similar > projects like Zentyal (nee ebox) USM (https://launchpad.net/usm) and > so on.. (see above rant on web based things) To be honest, I'd slap a desktop on it and build it with a nice desktop gui toolkit. Probably be easier on the user that way. Otherwise, thanks for pointing me at that, I wasn't at all aware of it, and like sponge cake, it makes a good base. :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
