Would not webmin be a good fit? Develop good modules for webmin to manage OI with.
Mike On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 17:02 +0200, Open Indiana wrote: > It's not that OI doesn't have to have a GUI, it's only that not all settings > have to be set OVER a GUI. > Of course it needs a decent GUI, but that doesn't imply that you can > change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] > Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden > resigns" > > On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > > On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the > >>> command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including > >>> Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to > >>> administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe to use > >>> it as a home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. That way OI > >>> would reach a higher penetration with a larger user-base and most > >>> importantly; it will get _free advertising_. To some extent the old > >>> adage "A good product markets itself" has some truth in it. But it > >>> must not only be good, it has to /look/ good so that even a less > >>> versed person will understand how good it is. > >> > >> Focusing on issues like this would be putting the cart before the > >> horse. It is more important to be able to easily build everything > >> and incorporate updates than to have a fancy configuration GUI. OI > >> popularity should come second to correct functionality and having an > >> organization (of volunteers and corporate entities) to sustain it. If > >> OI is worthy, popularity will follow, even if only from people who > >> already preferred Solaris. > > > > +1. Precisely. > > > I totally agree. However, I selfishly want an X-windows server and window > manager on my server. I personally would prefer a simple window manager > over a the heavyweight Gnome/KDE camps but there are reasons to go with > these. > > I develop GUI based applications and have just about one of every > Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows OS and version running to do build and test sitting > in the home office on the opposite coast. Our clients still have a large > investment with Solaris 9/10 so it is important that this builds and runs on > a Solaris variant. Some of the apps can launch external programs, so it > determines whether it should use gnome-open, etc. to choose the appropriate > application. > > I telecommute, so when I make code changes I like to first build and test it > on a cross section of platforms locally so I don't ship it out to the build > farm broken and make everyone unhappy. > > I run router/firewall/file-share/backup/web/imap,web,smtp mail services on > an old V20z. I have over 10 TB of mirrored zfs storage on which stores mail > for each user With all of this, I seldomly tax it's resources. I do, > however use this to build and test to make sure that it properly compiles > and runs my applications. This has saved me countless of re-spins do to > compiler or library issues. Without X-windows and some WM, I would no longer > be able to use this machine that way and would have to take the hit for > breaking Solaris builds. > > I recently picked up an Enterprise 450 when I heard of the OI Sparc efforts. > However, it came with the internal NIC and the DVD drive broken. It also > has that funky PXE graphics card. I got around the NIC by putting a > fiberchannel card in and a SX to TX converter, and picked up a replacement > DVD drive. I was hoping to not only use it for testing, but to use it to > help the SPARC OI efforts but it still requires X-windows and WM to be > useful for me. > > I can't believe that I'm the only one that uses OI to do GUI product > development. > > Gary > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
