Thanks, Darren. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up.
Eric On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Darren Kenny wrote:
JDS Single System Administration (JDS SSA) is a group of projects to bring some basic system administration tools to (Open)Solaris. While Solaris has enterprise based administration tools, mostly web-based and the Sun Management Console (SMC) and finally various CLI based utilities - these are all lacking in the area of an application development user, with little sys-admin experience, and who would like to be able to do some basic administration tasks on their machine, such as: - Add Users or Groups - Configure Date and Time (using NTP, etc). - GUI for Network Configuration (which should work with the NWAM project). - Share filesystems - Enable / Disable Services - Run applications with different privileges - Look at system logs (and possibly monitor them) - Printer Setup / Administration - Disk Management (along the lines of GParted) - ... This list is by no means complete, and is likely to change, but it's mainly as starting point by which we can start to make (Open)Solaris a useful desktop platform to people with little system-administration knowledge. Most of these projects will be done either using existing infrastructure in (Open)Solaris or by means of work done in other Open Solaris projects - e.g. NWAM, Duckwater, SMF, Visual Panels, etc. As I said we are specifically focusing on the users in the Academic and Open Source space - where the majority of their work is done on one or two machines which are not using enterprise level directory services (e.g. NIS or LDAP) regularly, and which may not even be constantly connected to a network. There are other projects which are more targeted at the broader workgroup and enterprise arenas. We also would like all the utilities to be well integrated in to the GNOME environment, meaning that they Look and Feel familiar to any GNOME user. Thanks, Darren.
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