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

[jwl at sgi.com (Jim Lynch)]

Webmin?  It's installed on my system, but all it seems to want to do is
administer itself.  There don't seem to be any other functions
installed.  It's pretty useless, IMHO.

Jim.

"Michael D. Hirsch" wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 26 June 2003 02:54 pm, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> > Greetings Ale
> >
> > I'm trying to help out someone who is not an admin set up a linux box to
> > run a small, inter-office application that she's going to write.
> >
> > I'll be helping her set up the server so I can lock it down, but after
> > that it will be hers to manage.  So what are your favourite distros for
> > total newbies who want a graphical interface to manage users and
> > software packages?  I'm interested in ease of use followed closely by
> > not flagrantly ignoring basic security as much as possible with an
> > Xwindows environment.
> >
> > RH is the distro I know best, but from the command line, so I don't know
> > how its user and package management apps compare to other distros. If
> > there's something easier to use I'd like to hear about it.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Michael
> 
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