Re: [cobalt-users] Are Raq's here to stay? (opinions wanted)

["William Moore" <bmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "JC Jones" <jcjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Are Raq's here to stay? (opinions wanted)


> -> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> -> William J.A. Brillinger
> -> I've seen webmin:
> -> http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
> ->
> -> Looked pretty good. I haven't explored it personally though.
>
> I installed webmin on a local Linux box to play with.  I found it rather
> cumbersome and difficult to use.  However, the Cobalt GUI is
> over-simplified and therefore limiting.  It would be nice to find one
> that is somewhere in the middle, or had different IF's for different
> levels of control.
>
> Maybe some of us should just create a open source admin GUI that works
> on Cobalt machines and Linux boxes alike with configurable control
> levels.  *Like any of us have time to do that though*
>
> JC Jones
>
I have used webmin on all my servers including the cobalts now for almost a
year.
At first it was a little bit difficult or cumbersome,  but It works very
well once
you are used to it.  The file manager area is VERY GOOD,  and you can write
your
own modules for webmin if you like.

Bill
http://www.biz-webhost.com