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J. WestfallSet Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Serverhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6966-4_4

4. Basic Linux Administration via GUI (Webmin)

Jon Westfall1  
(1)
Cleveland, MS, USA
 

Sometimes the command-line environment can be a bit frustrating, and in those cases, you might really wish you had a prettier option that held your hand a bit more. Thankfully, one exists in the well-established Webmin project. Founded by Jamie Cameron and first released in October 1997, Webmin is an open source project that can be used for both commercial and noncommercial purposes, making it very useful to us. It also provides the same administrative interface on both Debian ...

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