Re: An idea from a Debian user

2005-03-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
Evan Cox wrote: Hi Guys, I hope this is the right area to send this email. My apologies if I am wrong. If so, please forward to the appropriate area. I have fiddles with Linux distro's for approx 3 years, and found Debian 3 months ago. I adore it, and will be using debian from now on. I wo

Re: An idea from a Debian user

2005-03-17 Thread Peter Eckersley
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:28:55PM +1100, Evan Cox wrote: > My idea is to create a frontend program that is similar to the profile > 'Midnight Commander' in Konqueror (ie screen splint into 3/4 top and > 1/4 CLI) that begins with iconised area relevant to the > administration task, and ends with

Re: An idea from a Debian user

2005-03-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > A lot of work has been done in webmin for this. Web interfaces are > generally preferred in this century :-) and gkdebconf, base-config or configure-debian. However the neaness of debian is mostly due to its classical unix design. And this is somewhat

Re: An idea from a Debian user

2005-03-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:28:55PM +1100, Evan Cox wrote: > My suggestion has come from frustration in trying to maintain Debian Sarge > from the CLI. I am very use to some sort of system control center, for > common tasks such as iptables, network connection/configuration, configuring > hardw