Wally wrote: <SNIP> > >There's lots of choice in the Windows world as well, as there was in DOS. MS >have something of a stranglehold on OS and mainstream apps, but there's >plenty of freeware and shareware out there. > >To me, it's more about how the choices are presented. Like I say, dumping >2000 files into one dir is a tad sub-optimal, organisation-wise - nobody >that runs an ftp site throws everying into one folder, there's a structured >tree underneath. By the same token, it's *easier* to find Windows freebies >by going to something like Tucows and browsing by category. That's how a >mass bundling of freebie RPMs should be done, but my impression of the >Mandrake RPM set is that this is lacking. I can't see the point in not >having even a single layer of subdirs that split things up into broad >groups. >
<SNIP> > > >Is there much in the way of text-mode interfaces to the backends? Or do >folks tend to only write a totally CLI backend and a GUI client-thingy? If I >had a linux desktop, as well as a server, could I use a GUI on the desktop >to control the associated backend running on the server, rather than run the >backend module on the desktop? > As a matter of fact, you can use a desktop from that "other" OS on a second machine to configure most things on a linux machine, just as easily as a linux GUI with browser. Just load and run webmin (installed by default in most cases) or use the webversion of linuxconf. You can then sit at a browser logged into https://(your_linux_machine_address):10000 as root with the root password (first time--thereafter, it is how you choose to set up the security) and run a GUI (with clickable help in many cases) to configure servers, set up jobs to run, set up schedules for jobs, execute CLI commands, create custom commands, administer the system, etc. In fact, though it is relatively rare that one would need to, you can even force a reboot on the remote linux system. Civileme
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
