accessible unix administration

A long time ago, I feel like accessible unix administration was a lot easier. For instance.. Solaris 10. It had comprehensive, easy to use, rock solid gui utilities for every single aspect of solaris/unix administration, right down to the most complex tasks (Solaris management console) creating ldap groups, or setting up a vpn or domain was really easy. But tools like that seem to have faded unless it's apart of some barely functioning proprietary webOS... Can we still have tools like that today? If i went to install say, fedora or redhat right now, it would have very little in that regard, outside hacky, bloated and slow gnome 3 crap that most likely does not fully work. Here are some examples of what I am talking about ... - firestarter (still somewhat accessible although frequently broken) - solaris management console - all administration utilities from CDE or JDE on solaris 8-10 Can I find any of this stuff today on modern linux distros..?

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Fedora and RHEL really suck at this because they use GNOME, the KDE suite's administration utilities are a bit better, but I agree that they still suck compared to Solaris. Personally, I don't really even see the point in GUI configs, the terminal is more reliable.

>>32007 Sadmind was a service via RPC that was famous for being exploitable. Unix Services are usually deployed in bulk horizontally anyway where CLI is faster. Desktops have tools like Control Panels and YAST.

>>32012 if it works reliably then staffing people to manage servers just became a lot easier

>>32007 This is interesting, OP. I remember managing Windows Server 2008 on my classes in my school. The server management console was pretty cool, even though it was often buggy and underdeveloped, but it was good to have at least this. I don't know why there's nothing like this on GNU/Linux now, maybe some just prefer memorizing commands and using 10 different configuration files and languages.

>>32007 OpenSuse's Yast. You are very welcome.

wow, didn't know something like that existed! the modules on the official site a pretty expansive too; this might make SuSE the linux distro I recommend to people who are used to administrating windows