[ale] easy first distro for a non-linux person?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 26 June 2003 03:35 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > Any distribution with webmin installed.  I think Mandrake has it.  I
> > don't think RH does.  I don't know about SuSE.  I bet Debian does.
>
> SuSE doesn't need webadmin with YAST2.  SuSE 8.2 comes with a very nice
> manual as well.

Cool.  YAST2 has a browser interface as well?  Nice.  I know that linuxconf 
had one, but it was just as ugly as their other interfaces.

> > Mandrake also has reasonable console GUI tools, as do RedHat and SuSE.
> >  But I think webmin, a browser based GUI tool, is the best one I've
> > seen for server admin.
>
> You sure you've looked at SuSE YAST2???

No, I'm sure that I haven't.  But as I said, "[SuSE] has reasonable GUI 
tools."  If YAST2 is also browser based for remote admin, that is very 
good.

Michael

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