On Sep 26, 2011 10:18 PM, "Bruno Girin" <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 26/09/11 21:35, Matthew Daubney wrote: >> >> On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope<a...@popey.com> wrote: >> <snip> >> >>> Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial "want" of many (including myself). >> >> I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to become an itch :( >> >>> I'll refer you to this spec:- >>> >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer >> >> Ah, lovely. I agreed with it largely until this.... >> "The interface will be web based" >> And then I wanted to curl up in the foetal position and cry. >> >> BEWARE RANT AHOY! >> >> <rant> >> Why do people always want these things web based? I'd much rather >> prefer something that works simply in a nice easy gui that I could >> VNC/whatever into. In order to make things like this web based, you >> either have to lose some flexibility and/or can make it really hard to >> report back to the user what actually is going on. I've never really >> found a web based configuration gui I liked (and I write them for >> work). > > Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the desktop GUI libraries on the server, which means that the server stays a server and can be a fairly lean machine that doesn't burn CPU to paint a desktop (important for a small office where running a powerful server 24x7 can be prohibitively expensive and/or noisy). And considering the size and complexity of GUI code these days, adding a GUI to a server is likely to increase the potential for bug several folds. > > I hear what you say about web front-ends but balancing the pros and cons, I would still go for a web front-end, mainly to keep the server lightweight. This doesn't preclude a standard GUI front-end on client machines though. > > Bruno
Could you not administer a server with a client on a desktop elsewhere? That way you could keep the server lean and you could design it as such that it could be installed on any OS desktop opening a more comfortable route for windows / apple users? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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