From kde-core-devel  Sun Aug 01 00:03:47 2004
From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:03:47 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KAdmin
Message-Id: <200408010203.48016.adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
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On Sunday 01 August 2004 01:02, Frans Englich wrote:
> For long buzzed about is KAdmin, similar to KControl but
> does only contain server administration functionality(which KControl have
> in addition to user preferences), and has KParts as content instead of
> KCModules.
> KAdmin would have kernel configuration, boot manager,  "pseudo modules"
> linking to web admin interfaces, kuser, KIOSK(no, that's nothing you need
> as a regular user) -- all integrated under one roof. KAdmin would typically
> be installed on servers only.

You mean tweakBSD (for system configuration) or a combination of klilo + kuser 
+ some other bits. Some of Simon's firewall stuff, done in PyKDE, perhaps. 
It's been started before. It's been argued over before. And the consensus 
each time seems to have been that a lot of it is too system-specific, and the 
remainder already has tools for it.

-- 
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