RE: 2.4: System Tools - Please try them

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:15, Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:19, Carlos Garnacho Parro wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:55, Mark Finlay wrote:
> > >> > Of the top of my head my list of tool that i actually would use as a
> > >> > user are:
> > >> > - Time tool
> > >> > - Network tool / internet connection wizard
> > >> > - Printer tool
> > >> > - Software managment tool
> > >> > - Password changing tool
> > >> >
> > >> > And as an adminstrator:
> > >> > - User tool
> > >> > - Samba tool
> > >> > - NFS tool
> > >> > - Authentication tool
> > >> > - Apache tool
> > >>
> > >> Oh and a services tool - but i really think that this should just work
> > >> too.
> > >
> > > Its an admin tool. The question is "do I want to be running an FTP
> > > server, web server, NFS server, mail server?"
> > 

I would vote YES for inclusion of GNOME system tools, if the quality at
2.4 release time is good enough (I have _not_ tried them, but they seem
to work for most people).

-> It gives a usable way of configuring *nix systems
-> Distros won't adopt them if they're inferior to their own tools, but
probably will if they are superior (and possibly help with checking
compatibility before releases if they become the de facto standard)
-> It helps people on distros with bad/buggy system tools
-> KDE has them (says my friend) ;-)

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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