Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:34:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andrew Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Linux needs control.exe |
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On 23 Oct 1996, Matthew X Economou wrote:
> A full-fledged control panel (ie. something that could configure every > aspect of Linux) is going to do you about as much good as ploping a > copy of control.exe onto a DOS 6.2 boot disk. A full-fledged Linux > Other than that, there already is a freely available control panel for > Linux/init/ifconfig/etc. The RedHat control panel (and associated > utilities) should work just fine with non-RedHat systems, and it's > under the GPL, so people can make modifications, port it, do > whatever. The RedHat control panel can manage /etc/fstab, networking > setup (incl. PPP and routing), /etc/printcap, SysVinit, and stuff. > Pretty nifty. Mostly complete. >
Another very good admin interface is xadmin, a TCL/Tk beast that comes with Linux Universe and FT, and handles everything from adding users to configuring PPP to loading kernel modules. There's no reason I can think of why it couldn't be used on other distributions.
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