Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-20 Thread ray
On Friday, September 13, 2013 3:40:01 AM UTC-5, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: Greetings All! This is a great idea. It is not the typical solution. Having the ability for less experienced Linux operators able to effectively run, maintain and improve their system would enhance the acceptance.

Re: Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.09.2013 10:25, Jarrod O'Flaherty a écrit : Yes! That's it, essentially. You have put it very well here. I wish I had described it in that way. I am, in a nutshell, looking to make the process of applying what we find on Wikis and message boards -- all of which is fantastically helpful --

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-14 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
Hi John, Thanks for replying! I'm not a programmer but I do have a opinion. Webmin is already my 'go to' tool for a lot of those chores. The problem is it is too generic and not specific to Debian. A good place to start would be to get involved as a module writer for Webmin that is

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-14 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
Hi Darko, Thank you for your comments. Cool idea but takes all the fun out of Debian. :-) On a more serious note though,  having had the unfortunate pleasure of working with the family of *BSD's and Solaris' -- Debian is by far the easiest to administer and work with. I think the

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-14 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
Hi Lisi, Thanks for your reply, and letting me know about Libranet too. You could do worse than find a copy of the admin assistant and work it up.  It was Open Source software so the code is all there.  I have the disks that were released when the next version of Libranet became current,

Re: Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-14 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
Hi Joel, Thank you for your candid feedback on the idea! Glad to know that a bit of what I am proposing seemed to hit a chord with you! Too bad that I didn't manage to convince you to collaborate on the project -- perhaps down the track?? Certainly, updating the Wikis is a worthy goal! But the

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:34:35PM -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: I'm thinking along the lines of a Wiki style system where the (expert user) community contributes the recipes to the database, in much the same way that they currently contribute to the message board database by answering

One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
Greetings All! This is a call to Debian programmers who would be interested in spending a couple hours a month working with me on developing a One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool -- a tool intended to become the central and all-encompassing place to go to configure any and every aspect of your

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Such a thingy likely would be more complicated to use, than editing configuration files the old KISS way and in addition it likely will add extra bugs and would make Debian less configurable or it would become a bloated monster with tons of modules, so it would become much more complicated and

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
An example for my argumentation. On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:36 -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: PATTERN) I want to: VERB + OBJECT [ + to + VALUE ] EXAMPLE) I want to: change the default GTK font size to 18pt I want to: make the desktop icon fonts bigger For what WM, DE? You

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:36 -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: Greetings All! This is a call to Debian programmers who would be interested in spending a couple hours a month working with me on developing a One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool -- a tool intended to become the central and

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Jarrod O'Flaherty
Hi Ralf, Thanks for your very prompt and very candid feedback! wrong direction. It would be better to go the other way around and to get rid of similar GUIs and instead to write more good Wikis how to configure an install using a normal editor. If I may be so bold, let me suggest that we

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
On Sep 13, 2013 4:37 AM, Jarrod O'Flaherty jofs...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings All! This is a call to Debian programmers who would be interested in spending a couple hours a month working with me on developing a One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool -- a tool intended to become the central and

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:51:57 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: An example for my argumentation. On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:36 -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: PATTERN) I want to: VERB + OBJECT [ + to + VALUE ] EXAMPLE) I want to: change the default GTK font size to

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
From: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com So sorry, Jarrod. I really must succeed in changing my method and using L instead of clicking reply. :-( Sending to list as originally intended. On Friday 13 September 2013 09:36:50 Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: a tool intended to become the central and

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Jarrod O'Flaherty jofs...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings All! This is a call to Debian programmers who would be interested in spending a couple hours a month Pipe dreams. working with me on developing a One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool -- Possibly doable for a