From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 15:39:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6271916A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:39:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC6D43D2F for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:39:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linicks@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so562332wra for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:39:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Pxp4hBVdt046kIQWniww+mIaPrm0R66pheYVXlEnyig4AvH0Tlikwv02WmWgzDPSycRuQY8UhMHEIAJNu8BY1xkebAy325fQ6YR/cIkIeu5DdWn42IrtwoK11+tz4ZPXfcjnOZpFOb7tjBWrW7MuhU8FLPIqgrV2tac/YYQAsx4= Received: by 10.54.71.15 with SMTP id t15mr229359wra; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.98.3 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:39:53 -0600 From: Nick Pavlica To: Graham Bentley In-Reply-To: <4254F64D.6000002@uk2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3.0.6.32.20040617093700.007b1a70@mail.uk2.net> <20040617085132.2ae49db5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <40D24539.1080200@meijome.net> <4254F64D.6000002@uk2.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Norberto Meijome cc: Bill Moran Subject: Re: New user questions :) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nick Pavlica List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:39:55 -0000 On Apr 7, 2005 2:58 AM, Graham Bentley wrote: > > >> Graham Bentley wrote: > >> I also wondered if there is a project based on FreeBSD that > >>> achieves similar goals to SME Server (ie all in one LAN server > >>> with Web config) or similar to Trustix (ie minimal config with > >>> series of scripts to configure server services. > > >> Not that I know of, but it sure would be a nice project, huh? > > > > definitely a nice one. > > > > hmm...what would be the best way to go about it? > > - add an option to sysinstall "SME" (well, whatever that would be named > > of course) > > - add a port that 'depends' / installs all the other ports needed > > - with questions and answer to start setting up your system...or > > some kind of UI for it (ugh) > > - same as with ports, but prec-compiled packages. > > > > hmm...must download SME to test and see how they went about it. > > Hi Guys, Iw as wondering how I would even go about starting a project > like this using FreeBSD as I know even less than I do about Linux (not > much) but I really rate SME and would love to see a FreeBSD version as > FreeBSD seems even more suited to this type of thing (ie a stable distro > to base a good project on:) > > Did you get round to checking out SME ? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Graham, After taking a quick look at SME I can see it's appeal. I'm not sure if there is an equivalent for FreeBSD, but it would be a nice addition. Webmin does allot of this functionality as well if you haven't taken a look at that. To start a project like SME all you need to do is start hacking, and provide a web based community for it so that others are aware of it and possibly start helping out. Because they are both *nix based operating systems you may be able to start by porting the web manager from SME to FreeBSD 5.4 +. --Nick