Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] In the news ...

[Jacob S. <dev...@js...>]

Hi,

I must say that for me not having to deal with gui and so on is one of the
main features of Devil-Linux.

That's kind of what "It is created from IT Administators for IT
Administrators." means to me. 

And the articles "However, Devil-Linux is designed to be lightweight, so
don't expect a graphical interface or support for X Window System." is a
selling point for me.

The operating system is made for administrators with all the freedom real
knowledge about how to administer a Linuxsytem gives. And the speed of not
being cluttered with unessential stuff. 

Guibased systems usually means that as soon as you do something specialized
all other configuration breaks, or is resets over and over - just my
experience.

I had not chosen DL if it was not so stripped from "unessential stuff".

And do not see any benefit in having a guibased system such as webmin, if I
need easy macros I make them myself, and if I want users to control stuff I
create the gui for them just allowing the limited changes needed.

Mostly I do not even use setup :)

That said I guess that I can chose not to run webmin, or even not activate
it during creation off a DL media. I just do not see the benefit, there are
already very popular guibased Linux firewalls and you will have to add allot
of features to compete with them, and I'm afraid limitations for us that
like to dig into the system our self.

Kind regards
Jacob


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Från: Heiko Zuerker [mailto:he...@zu...] 
Skickat: den 5 oktober 2008 15:59
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Ämne: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] In the news ...

Quoting "Bruce Smith" <bw...@re...>:

>>> http://www.linux.com/feature/147977
>>
>> Seems like his only major complain is the lack of a GUI.
>
> I agree a GUI would be a BIG improvement.  Right now we're limited to
> Linux gurus to do anything beyond a basic firewall.  A GUI would open
> DL to many more potential users.
>
> One other thing we need is automatic hardware detection, especially
> for network cards.
>
>> Maybe we need to revisit Webmin for DL, but the initial implementation
>> may take quite some time.
>
> I've never used Webmin, but that might be a good option.
>
> Does Webmin require Apache?  Or will it run with smaller web servers?
> A requirement of Apache would increase the memory requirements.

Webmin is written in Perl and actually brings it's own http(s) server with
it.

> What other options are there, besides Webmin?

Not sure, I'd guess webmin has the most features.


-- 

Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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