RE: [cobalt-developers] Preserving the Cobalt Web Interface

["Richard Drent \(Drent IT BV\)" <info@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it is a good initiative to build a GUI, based on the cobalt
principal. 


Where to join the QBalt mailinglist? 

Richard Drent
 

Herb,

> Ryan,
> 
> Can you give us a quick progress report on the Qbalt project?

It's in a "alpha" stage - the interface is there, the
installer's pretty dodgy (just unzips a gzip file 'image' of the
hard drive), and things mostly work, but there still are bugs
I'm keen to iron out before a release.

> What's working so far? How much help do you have?

ISP Vhosting - Qbalt is 'module' based, meaning that you can
actually dynamically add packages to an 'add site' or 'add user'
command (and down the track, this is all customisable too).

One of the installations I've got is doing radius (for two
sites, which have different realms), web, ftp, mail (in one
case, also virus+spam filtering).  I'm working on some Samba
stuff currently to be somewhat like the Qube. 

> Is it perl based?

No; PHP for now, because I'm trying to hurry along things, but
I'm planning on rewriting it in python at a later stage.

> Did you reuse any released Cube code?

Nope.

> Do you have a graphic designer to make it look as pretty as the Cobalts?

I do some graphic design myself, plus work with other graphic
designers.  I've actually got another webinterface-based Linux
distro out there, but it's commercial (smoothwall-type thing -
gateway services for businesses, but also does gateway faxing,
incoming/outgoing mail filtering [virus/spam], QoS/shaping,
etc), so I've had experience with this before. 

> Will it work on Red Hat? What is your development environment?

They're built as Debian packages, so no, no Red Hat support for
now - its highly dependent on apt-get and dpkg.  I'm sure
support could proabably be added, but I'm not terribly fond of
Redhat.

> What tasks do you need help on? Is this full time for you?

I've actually been lucky enough to land quite a few 'real' jobs
that I'm using parts of Qbalt for - for example, a few schools
that require the Samba-type administration stuff, and a few
ISP's that needed vhosting/radius boxes, so I've been able to
develop Qbalt out of this.  It is reasonably full time, and when
I release it, I'll hope to have others help on it.

> Do you still need more machines? Do you have a Raq 4? 550?

Once I've released the Restore CD for the Cobalt's, certainly
will need testers.

Join the Qbalt mailing list, or alternatively Cobaltfacts; I'll
be announcing things there versus here.

R

> I would really like to see this project succeed.
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:47, Ryan Verner wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:29:11PM -0500, David Lucas wrote:
> > > At 12:20 PM 8/6/2003, you wrote:
> > > >All,
> > > >
> > > >Is anyone attempting to get the Cobalt Web GUI to run on a standard
Red
> > > >Hat Linux box?
> > > >
> > > >Since we are left without an upgrade path, I was wondering if we
should
> > > >start a group project to help us create an upgrade path.
> > > >
> > > >Herb
> > > 
> > > there is one by Ryan, it is called Qbalt
> > 
> > Indeed; I'm actually in the middle of working on one of the
> > interface components :)
> > 
> > And it isn't the Cobalt GUI; it's a complete rewrite, although
> > it's been designed to have the same 'feel', so from a user
> > perspective, it'll be incredibly simular.
> > 
> > R 
> > 
> > 
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