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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

webmin.com) offers more complete Web-based Linux and UNIX
administration features. Although Webmin isn??™t delivered with some Linux systems that offer
their own graphical administration tools (such as Fedora and RHEL), the Webmin project has
ported Webmin to run on more than 70 different operating systems. Supported Linux distributions
include SUSE, Red Hat (Fedora and RHEL), Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva,
Yellow Dog, and others (see www.webmin.com/support.html for a complete list).
Once you get Webmin from Webmin.com and install it, you can use Webmin from your Web
browser. To start the Webmin interface, type the following in the Web browser??™s location box:
http://localhost:10000
After you log in as root user, the main Webmin page displays, as shown in Figure 4-1.
Graphical Administration with
Different Distributions
Some people fear that once they??™ve left the familiar confines of their Microsoft Windows system for
Linux, they??™ll be stuck doing everything from a command line. To gain a wider audience, commercial
Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE created their own sets of
graphical tools to provide an easy entry point for new Linux users. The following sections describe
Red Hat??™s system-config and SUSE??™s YaST graphical administration tools.


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