On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Adrian Sevcenco Adrian.Sevcenco@cern.ch wrote:
You could think of NethServer as CentOS with some extra packages, particularly a powerful and extensible web interface that simplifies common administration tasks.
I am just curious : how much is of the nethserver package functionality is overlapping with webmin?
Webmin doesn't do much to hide the complexity. It just gives you a web interface and a little syntax checking but you still have to know what programs you need to manage and what all the options mean to modify any particular service. ClearOS/SME/NethServer management interfaces are much more task/function oriented and you generally manage them without needing to know much at all about the details of the underlying programs. Some of the form actions may in fact affect more than one program's settings.
The down side is that if you want to change things the existing web forms don't handle, you then need to not only know all the underlying normal linux configuration details, but also understand the additional web forms and their coding scheme that is going to rewrite the config files.