On 26/09/11 21:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope<a...@popey.com> wrote:
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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!
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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).
Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the
desktop GUI libraries on the server, which means that the server stays a
server and can be a fairly lean machine that doesn't burn CPU to paint a
desktop (important for a small office where running a powerful server
24x7 can be prohibitively expensive and/or noisy). And considering the
size and complexity of GUI code these days, adding a GUI to a server is
likely to increase the potential for bug several folds.
I hear what you say about web front-ends but balancing the pros and
cons, I would still go for a web front-end, mainly to keep the server
lightweight. This doesn't preclude a standard GUI front-end on client
machines though.
Bruno
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