WebMin, the great distro equalizer

I make a point to become familiar with many distros. I have users I work withwhom I must be ready to help regardless of the distro they choose.

It is one of the reasons I am a great supporter of creating development standards for Linux.

Meanwhile, One truly great tool that bridges most Linux distros help make working with Linux a productive, and familiar experience is WebMin.

Once setting up most Linux distros, regardless of being a .deb or .rpm based distro is that usually you can get webmin installed shortly afterward. Once that happens, and you have all the modules, etc installed correctly, life will become a lot more productive.

I can set up a bank of 10 different servers, each having a different distro installed., Each one having WebMin installed on it. I can then sit at each machine, and by using WebMin, have a consistent admin experience on each machine.

I can also setup WebMin to be accessed by a remote lan connected computer and access each machine, the same way and never move to any of the individual machines once.

Webmin allows me to keep a machine "headless", meaning, having no monitor, keyboard, etc and still access and maintain that machine from a GUI experience, if that's what I want, from almost anywhere.

Yes, there are those who will bring up some security issues, all relating to accessing a machine remotely, but I maintain that security issues persist in any computer environment and that by being aware and careful, most any issues will be covered.

Not only does WebMin succeed as a tool, but they have brought about a great number of documents and How To's to help almost any user become productive with a variety of different tools and servers as long as the tech or admin to be is willing to learn and "get their hands dirty" so to speak.

And that is required of any tech or admin, regardless of what tools or servers you plan to maintain.

No, this is not a paid advertisement, I just believe in giving props and credit to those people and tools that work to make Linux the best OS it can be. WebMin does that and more.


Jamie Cameron has done great work by developing WebMin and giving it to the world as an opensource tool. All the help he gets from others is testimony to the positive impact WebMin has had on Linux.


You can check out WebMin and see for yourself what it has to offer by going to:
http://www.webmin.com/

Making common experiences happen with Linux is a good thing, it enables productivity, builds learning and community and gives new users an opportunity to have a functional Linux experience everytime.

Thanks Jamie and WebMin