S.D.A. wrote:
Thanks I played a bit with it and I have to say it's a very nice peace of software (the whole webmin environment).On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:52:43PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jaap Haitsma wrote:S.D.A. wrote:On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jaap Haitsma wrote:Are people working on this?I dunno if they are, but this capability exits already, with a plug-in for Webmin.Can you elaborate a bit more on this???Just download Webmin, and the associated plugin for software. aptitude search webmin: aptitude install webmin webmin-software If you don't have aptitude installed, I suggest you grab it first, or use apt-get.
However it's not exactly what I was thinking of. Webmin-software doesn't really bring something new to tools like synaptic or aptitude etc. OK it's running in a browser and you can access it from a remote PC
What I was referring to that you have something Click N Run of Lindows.So the user browses packages.debian.org and then clicks on a link on that page and then the package get installed. This is really non-tech savy friendly.
You could take it even further that you make something like my.debian.org where you register your PC and where you can see if there are upgrades etc. If your system crashes you can just go there and get every package you had installed installed again. etc. etc.
You could even save your settings there. So getting a new PC up and running will be a breeze.
Jaap