schultz.patr...@gmail.com wrote: > Can you explain how the system becomes inflexible by adding a GUI tool? >
Well, the whole premise for the tool was apparently to enable non-admins to administer a server. Are you going to give a whole list of options that they know nothing about? As for those in the know, feel free to create a tool for the myriad possible configurations out there. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:37 > To: Caroline Ford<caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com> > Cc: > ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Domain Server > > Caroline Ford wrote: > >> On 25 Oct 2009, at 15:09, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> Or puts them out of a job? >>>> >>>> >>> Likely we are talking about a small business here, so the decision >>> maker might be the top of the organization's food chain. But it might >>> get him sued, and thus out of a business. If it is a sole >>> proprietorship, it might put him out of a house too. >>> >>> >> I meant the sysadmins complaining about making system administration >> easier, and possibly "deskilled". >> >> If you feed yourself through Linux system administration you have an >> interest in it being inaccessible. >> >> Caroline >> > > Hey, you know what. I think I like this idea. This will guarantee a > fixed, non-flexible solution that will require the services of real > system administrators to do whatever or troubleshoot in the event of a > problem. In the end, the GUI will make some things inaccessible and I > could setup a company and actually charge per incident instead of trying > to convince mom and pop outfits to pay some monthly/yearly service > charge and try to justify it when nothing seems to go wrong. > > Please make sure you do not say anything about raid1/mirrored disks, > backup and whatever during the installation process. > > As for the initial ambitions of creating disk images, replacing Windows > ADS servers and audit software, please remember not to mention that > although there are no viruses for Linux, there is no guarantee of the > Windows clients being protected, we do not currently have ADS support > and you can forget about all the random software currently installed may > or may not work with Wine if you intend to convert the workstations to > Ubuntu. > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
