Webmin on Dapper\Edgy

[Carl Karsten]

> On 11/25/06, Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-September/020471.html
>>
>> "And I was really hoping no one would bring up webmin. It's a piece of
>> software so horrifyingly vile that we want absolutely _nothing_ to do
>> with it, not even carry it in the Ubuntu archive. The entirety of the
>> ubuntu-server team had a small celebration the day that package was
>> killed."
>>
>>

Steve Tripp wrote:
 > Well, I've been using Webmin for quite a few years and don't plan on
 > stopping now just because some developers poo poo it.  I'm not privy to
 > what
 > makes them say that about one of the most stable and versatile apps I've
 > ever used, but it's no skin off my nose because I've always installed from
 > tarball.  I've used Webmin in quite a few situations on a dozen Linux
 > flavors, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X where endusers needed
 > restricted gui access to server processes and there is not a lot out there
 > that can compete with Webmin for working uniformly across platforms.  It is
 > not perfect, but neither is any other piece of software out there.
 >
 > Could it be Perl jealousy?
 >

I am sure it is explained.  I would also not ignore what you call "some 
developers poo poo it" - at least find out why.