I am proud to announce the release of Linuxconf 1.8. This release incorporate many enhancement and features. The last official release was 1.6. Linuxconf-1.6 was a major user interface rework and 1.8 has fixed many details. Linuxconf-1.6 was really the release which "makes it". The user base is now pretty important. The number of hits on my web server (from several thousand different sites per month) and the number of email I have received have raised significantly from previous release. Linuxconf-1.8 add some fine tuning to all this and add many important building blocks. Linuxconf is a sophisticated administration system for Linux under the GPL. It has a ncurses and HTML interface. It has been uploaded to sunsite in the pub/Linux/Incoming directory and should move to /pub/Linux/system/Admin/linuxconf-1.8.src.tar.gz. Binaries for both elf and a.out systems are provided at the same place. Check out the following URL for more info http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/changes.html The major enhancements are -the HTML mode had some bugs and was not using all available HTML widgets. -A privilege system has been designed. You can now grant some administrative privilege to simple user (Create POP account for example). Much more privilege can be added to Linuxconf. Comments welcome and suggestion about new privileges. -Management of linuxconf's logs (What Linuxconf has done) is now cleaner. Linuxconf is now much much more verbose at boot time (All this is configurable). You can review everything that was thrown at you using Linuxconf. -Interactive booting. If anything goes wrong during the boot process and something seems to hang, you can recover control and either skip the guilty command, terminate it, or jump right into Linuxconf configure mode. When you exit, Linuxconf will continue the boot process, potentially backtracking because you may have done complex configuration changes. This is a unique feature unheard on any OS. -There is now an UN-install script for those who are not sure if they need Linuxconf. -Support for RedHat 4.0, Debian 1.1 and Slackware 3.1. -Enhance Sendmail.cf generation. Linuxconf configure Sendmail on all distribution I could test (7). -Enhance PPP dial-out script. You can do PPP over ssh to create secure channel. You can also enter routing information directly in the dial-out dialog. No need to fiddle with /etc/ppp/ip-up. -A new concept of Virtual Email Hosting have been invented. Fully managed by Linuxconf. ISPs, check it out! -A new menu entry in the main menu: Control panel. This is expect to grow into a command center. -Lot of enhancement for shadow password management, including default policies.