Re: System administration with GNOME.

[John Kodis <kodis jagunet com>]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:43:12PM +0200, Martijn van Beers wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:32:22AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> >    One subject we have avoided during a long time in GNOME was the one
> > of writing system administration tools.  As time passes, it becomes
> > more obvious that we must address this to offer users a complete
> > desktop solution.
> 
> Do we really need to start from scratch here? How about improving one
> of the existing projects like linuxconf?

Also in the interest of not starting from scratch unless it's really
required, the Caldera Open Administration System (COAS) project at
http://www.coas.org looks like they've done a lot right.  They have a
modular system which can deal with existing configuration file formats
in a flexible manner, they've been making regular releases for the
last couple of years, they seem to have a fairly language and OS
neutral design, and they're considering moving to a CORBA-based
architecture in the next revision.  If done well, this would provide
both a local and a remote system administration tool.

-- John Kodis.