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

["Hosting Sales" <hosting@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom:

Good points.  It certainly wasn't my intention to proclaim any "flavor"
of Linux better than any other.  Rather, I just find that having worked
on several servers, some of them remote, that I had more problems
porting sites to the raq than I did between any other systems, most of
which I had little flexibility in changing.  I am still having problems
with the raq "out of the box".  For example, sendmail insists on
delivering mail addressed to admin@<any of my domains> to the admin
server administrator.  I was able to fix this by messing with the
sendmail configs.  I also cannot send (using Outlook 2002) to any site
whose mailbox name is webmaster; always could before.  All of my sites
have an admin@xxxxxxx generally for corporate administration, and all
(duh!) have a webmaster@xxxxxx.  Haven't solved the last one yet, but
I'm working on it.  Incidentally, these sites have lived on three
different remote servers, run by three different outfits, with three
different versions of Linux.  Never had a problem moving them around
'til I met raq.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ted
Behling
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:21 AM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt vs. "real Linux" (WAS: Webmin)

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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