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Why use this when Webmin has done the job for decades? https://webmin.com/ https://webmin.com/
by itomato 3y ago
Why use this when Webmin has done the job for decades?
https://webmin.com/ https://webmin.com/
- worksonmine 3y agoGod I hate these comments. "X exists so why would anyone ever build Y". Why not? Competition is good, think about it for a minute and I'm sure you'll figure out how.
- kristopolous 3y agoBecause open source is about collaboration, not wasting time with redundant effort
- worksonmine 3y agoI disagree, options need to exist. Some full featured, others with a more minimal approach. Different languages, and different flavors. True democracy rarely works and catering to all users more often than not ends up in unmaintainable spaghetti. People are allowed to create their own X even if thousands of options already exist.
- itomato 3y agoIts a profitable category?
- pch00 3y agoA possible reason: if you're already a RHEL shop, you're happy with your RHEL support contract and you train up all your folks to be RHCE, then Cockpit is the "supported" web admin tool. Second: webmin also has a patchy security history. I don't know enough about cockpit to say it's any better but it would certainly be enough of an issue to review all of the options.
- dinkleberg 3y agoJust wanna point out that cockpit started nearly a decade ago, so it is not a new entry in this arena either.
- joshmanders 3y agoWhy use Webmin when cPanel has done the job a full year longer?
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoIs cPanel really a similar technology? It’s more geared towards offering shared hosting than maintaining your own server, right?
- 0pteron 3y agoDoes webmin use no resources when not in use? Couldn't find anything about it on the site