Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you can describe it in a task oriented step-by-step
> approach you could just as easily script it so that no one
> would ever have to do those steps again.
Not always, with all the variables.
> If you have a situation that fits the appliance-oriented
> approach (an office or home with one server and one
> internet connection) you might like the SME server from
> http://www.contribs.org.
> Administration is all through web forms and is task
> oriented.
I agree with you there for SOHOs/SMBs. Between IPCop and SME
Server, you have 95% of your necessary functionality -- from
an Internet security appliance that catches 95% of intrusions
to a LAN server that serves 95% of your needs.
> The next version will have Centos inside. I'd just rather
> see something with similar concepts that could be added on
> to a stock distribution like webmin instead of making
> something completely different. Unlike webmin, it
> maintains its own database to rebuild config files
> and in many cases it combines concepts for simplicity.
The problem is the "assumptions game."
Great for SOHOs/SMBs, not so good for MBs to enterprises.
> For example, if you create a 'group' you automatically get
> an email distribution group and a unix permission group at
> the same time.
Or why not a full LDAP entry for that matter, with all
services referencing it? I think that's where Fedora
Directory Server is headed in terms of integration, which
RHEL (and CentOS) will then follow -- hopefully in RHEL 5.
> Likewise, you add an 'information bay' or ibay and get a
> samba share, an ftp directory, and a web site all at the
> same time.
Again, such assumptions are great for SOHOs/SMBs, but not so
good for MBs and enterprises.
Once again, I don't think the problem is the format of the
book, it's the content -- too much all-in-one. It was fine
for UNIX, when most users were also sysadmins. But today the
Linux desktop is more than what UNIX users were, while not
always a sysadmin either.
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