@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller What separates the two? er... What makes Webmin not enterprise friendly vs Cockpit? (it has been a LONG time since I've used webmin and I haven't used Cockpit yet).
Webmin is a "third party unsupported add on crutch." It's whole purpose is to make UNIX graphical without using the officially supported toolsets. While that in and off itself isn't "bad", it's bad conceptually. It's purpose is to be a crutch for people who won't learn how to run the system and ends up being just like FreeNAS or whatever - just limitations and risk layered on top of the OS.
Cockpit is different. It is part of the OS itself, not an add on. It's fully managed and supported by the team that makes the OS (Red Hat, in this case.) In this way it is like the Microsoft GUI interface - still not ideal as a management tool, but stable and supported.
That Webmin is a huge, dangerous catch all for management and Cockpit is a limited graphical view of capacity planning with a few very simplistic management tools also makes them very different. Cockpit is not meant to replace being a good admin, it's meant to give some graphical views where they make sense. Webmin is meant to let people run an OS that they don't understand.
