[CoLoCo] Webmin???

Soren Hansen soren at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 2 23:09:32 BST 2008


On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:46:52PM -0600, Kevin Fries wrote:
> ahh nuts, here we go again.

Indeed.

> Linux is supposed to be about choice, but the Ubuntu distro is more
> and more showing that its just not industrial strength.  ebox does not
> have the industry wide support that webmin has. 

If packages cause more harm than they do good, Ubuntu has a sound policy
of removing them. Shipping any version of webmin in our repositories
will create the illusion that its use is even remotely supported.

> Again, Linux is supposed to be about choice, but more and more Ubuntu
> is removing/limiting perfectly good packages 

I'm not familiar with perfectly good packages being removed. webmin
certainly didn't fall into this category.

> I almost feel like I have been advocating the Linux worlds version of
> Microsoft (we will tell you what email server to run, we will tell you
> what database to run, etc, trust us, we know best).

FUD, FUD, FUD.

> Oh well, I guess two more servers need to be schedule for conversion
> to CentOS.

Have fun.

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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