From:	 "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>
To:	 <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Webmin and Debian
Date:	 Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:32:26 -0400 (EDT)

I was rather surprised to read in the desktop section of the latest LWN...

"Debian developers, we're told, have lately been interested in a Web based
administration tool from Caldera, Webmin, though this interest is not at
an official level (we haven't heard of them adding it to their
distribution at this time)"

...given that I've been the Debian webmin maintainer for close to a year
now.  Webmin packages are available in the testing and unstable
distributions and I will make unofficial packages for stable available
from my website.

As well as the modules in the official Webmin distribution, I'm also
working (in my copious free time haha!) on creating modules for
Debian-specific features such as the alternatives system, debconf etc.  My
hope is Webmin will become a complete solution for the novice and
experienced Debian administrator alike.

One thing that you can count on is neither Webmin (nor Linuxconf, nor XST
nor vi) will ever become the "one true way" to configure Debian.  It is
upto the individual administrator to decide what tools he is comfortable
with and it is not our place to force a choice upon him.  I hope other
Linux distributions will also choose not to shackle their users in the
name of "ease of use."

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>