Happy Belated Birthday...

[mandy]

...Webmin!

Webmin is 10!

Webmin version 0.1 was released ten years ago today, on October 3rd, 1997!

http://www.webmin.com/

We've been using it since version 0.5 - May 1998, Red Hat Linux 5

From the new Webmin blog:

Even a project as big as Webmin had to start somewhere. What did the first released version of Webmin do?

From looking at the modules in the original file, the first version managed only Cron, NFS shares, the BIND 4 DNS server, Inetd, bootup actions, mounted filesystems, Samba, and Unix users and groups. And it ran only on Solaris, Redhat Linux and Slackware.

The user interface in that first version looked pretty bad, but the basic design of Webmin was the same as it is now - a web server written in Perl and running as root, which then ran various CGI scripts. A big part of the work was writing that webserver, as Apache refused to run as root and setting up suexec or setuid root CGI scripts was too tricky to do in software that other people would be installing.

full article: http://inthebox.webmin.com/webmin-at-10

[rose]

[jezebel]

The user interface in that first version looked pretty bad

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