Martin, have you also looked at http://ebox-platform.com/ ? I have downloaded and intend to play w/ it today. From the screenshots and reviews looks quite nice. From what I can tell it is specific to Debian.
If you do intend to build a web-based interface from scratch, can you use a pretty language like Python or Ruby to do it? Perl and PHP make my eyes bleed. Both Django (Python) and Ruby on Rails seem like great frameworks for rapid development. I also like RubyonRails because there is momentum in the FedoraCommons community (E-Library) toward using Rails apps for front-end services. Then I could reuse the skills I have yet to acquire! On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 07:33 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:17 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the long term, there appears to be concern that the existing > > > administration interfaces for servers are not sufficient for our > > > needs. > > > I personally not worked w/ webmin or the admin interface for Centos > > > SME > > > Server so I cannot comment from experience. > > > > I've worked with Webmin, and the user experience is tolerable. > > Our security architect (Ivan) had less than noble things to say about > > it's implementation, dissuading us from using it. > > Here I am with Ivan - Webmin is the spawn of the devil ;-) - but > beyond that, I've seen quite a few web admin UIs, and though some are > good, none are what we are after IMHO. A custom web-based admin UI > might be something we have to write custom for the XS (*rolls up > sleeves*). I am hope we can discuss and sketch some plans for this in > the coming days... > > > I've slowly added scripts automating most of the configuration for > > small systems. We are really close to providing a file either on > > disk or on USB which configures the system --- it is a trivial > > programming > > task once the user experience and configuration info have been > > agreed upon. > > Cool - I'll be looking into those... > > > Larger systems (NYC, Birmingham) are a different > > story, as their network configuration is radically different. We will > > probably fork builds to handle their case, or move to just supporting > > service packages. > > Can we encapsulate local config in a "local" rpm package with fancy > post-inst scripts? > > cheers, > > > > martin _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
