Quoting Bob Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've just been wondering about Jay's question for the last two days. For the > heck of it, I just typed "aptitude install webmin" to see what would happen. > I was told that apache would be installed. I'm just a desktop user with no > need for apache.
Webmin is a plugin-extensible framework for administering... anything on the system for which someone has written a webmin module. Access is mediated via a Web server. You use it to administer your machine from a Web browser. > Is webmin really very much like YAST? Is it worth getting? YaST, by comparison, is a two-headed piece of software for SUSE boxes: During installation, it _is_ the installer program. After installation, it's a local program for managing services, package insertion/removal, etc. I can't imagine a better way to decide webmin's merits than to use it. > Of course I do not expect much sympathy from Debian users for this type of > computing. I can't imagine why. And the needs of people wanting something like YaST are probably best met by Debian-derived desktop distributions like Libranet and Xandros Desktop OS. > It is clearly economically suicidal for commercial distros to have > apt. Non sequitur. For example, you can point a Debian box at Xandros's apt-source hosts, but that will not fetch you some key pieces provided only in the shrink-wrapped boxed sets of Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
