[aclug-L] Re: February Meeting topic?

["Matt Pankratz" <mattp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've used Webmin on various *nix platforms and find it an indispensable tool.

Haven't heard about it being available for windoze...

I'll have to check that out.

Anne McCadden said:
> Do you have any experience with webmin?  I have seen it work, but I
> don't have it setup to manage my computers yet.  From what I understand,
> an IT manager can manage all the boxes with this web format, unix,
> linux, and windoze.
>
> I would like to find out more about debian.  I really like debian and It
> has been rock-solid stable.  ~Anne
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 20:25, John Goerzen wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:19:02PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>> > I would be willing to talk about any of the following.  Some of
>> these are not long enough for a single meeting, so two might be
>> covered in one night.  My personal favorite suggestion would be LVM
>> near the bottom, which could apply to just about everyone.
>>
>> And add to that list:
>>
>> * Debian.  Debian is, well, one of those "different" distributions.
>>   I'll talk about Debian's history, why I use Debian on all my
>> machines, its current status, its weaknesses, how to use it, etc.
>> Debian is also the only Linux distribution that is not just a Linux
>>   distribution; Debian ports also exist for the Hurd operating system,
>> are in progress for FreeBSD and NetBSD; are even being worked on for
>> Windows (!); and the Debian packaging system has been ported to
>> MacOS X (fink).  I'll talk about some of these things, too.
>>
>> * (shorter topic) OfflineIMAP, my e-mail synchronization tool.  An
>>   overview of the problems it's written to solve, discussion about how
>> to set it up, a demonstration of its use if possible, and if there's
>> interest, a discussion about the architecture under the hood.
>>
>> * Linux Virtual Servers.  Different ways you can take a single machine
>>   and carve it up into many smaller virtual machines.  Discussion of
>> why this is a useful technique.  I'll cover both the vserver project
>> and User Mode Linux.  Time permitting, I'll also briefly discuss the
>> FreeBSD jail feature, which is similar to the vserver idea.
>>
>> -- John
>>
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