RE: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt vs. "real Linux" (WAS: Webmin)

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:18 PM 8/15/01 -0400, Hosting Sales wrote:
>I installed it a few days ago.  Painless.  Most of the stuff works okay,
>but it does get a little confused by the weird Raq configuration.  Makes
>me wonder why I don't dump all the Cobalt crap on the Raq and just run
>it as if it were a real Linux box, with some actually up-to-date
>software.  Frankly, I'm getting tired of all the differences between my
>in-house (real) Linux server and the Raq.  I think if I wasn't leasing
>the Raq from a remote location, I just might do that.  Hell, I might
>anyway.

I feel the same way sometimes.  I stopped using the Web control panel long
ago, after it wouldn't let me format my DNS zone files the way I wanted and
completely redid my named.conf file when I added a zone.  I've been using
Linux since before RedHat was popular, and find that the GUI gets in my
way.  As a personal feeling, I don't trust the GUI -- everything runs as
root, and I wonder how many people outside Sun/Cobalt have done a full
source-code security audit of it?

The system works great as a stepping stone for the NT/IIS point-and-click
crowd, for whom it is designed.  Clearly, if you're a Linux guru, you'd
feel less frustrated by installing RedHat on a nice Dell server.

I respectfully disagree with your reference to "real" Linux.  As I'm sure
you are aware, there is no One True Way when it comes to Linux.  RedHat is
not the only, or necessarily the best, way to put together a Linux
environment.  Just because one server's file structure differs from the
next doesn't mean one is wrong.

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