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Enterprise Networking Planet: Webmin: Simple, Secure Linux Management

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CS
Carla Schroder
Sep 22, 2005

“Oldtyme Unix and Linux geeks love to rail endlessly about the
wonders of the command line, and the perfect awfulness of graphical
interfaces for system administration. It is true that the full
power of an operating system is found at the command line, and that
it is difficult for a GUI to include all the available command
options and script-ability of the CLI. And running X Window on a
server is rather silly–a waste of system resources and unnecessary
complexity.

“But different folks are comfortable with different tools–for
example, I can’t imagine trying to get along without a graphical
file browser…”


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Carla Schroder

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