What's New For Administrators

GNOME 2.12 has new features to make life easier for system administrators, including users who manage their own computers.

2.1. Improvements for Sabayon

As part of the work to support the Sabayon user profile manager, GNOME startup reads and touches fewer settings. Besides small performance gains, this means that GNOME 2.12 is easier to administer than ever, particularly in combination with Sabayon, which while not officially part of GNOME, makes setting up user profiles for GNOME very easy.

2.2. Menüüredaktor

GNOME's Applications menu now uses the freedesktop menu specification, so applications can be installed easily regardless of the desktop environment used. GNOME 2.12 has a simple tool for editing the menu and, because the infrastructure is standards compliant, other 3rd-party tools are becoming available.

Joonis 16Menüüredaktor

2.3. Süsteemi tööriistad

Süsteemi tööriistad lubavad sul seadistada süsteemi kella ning sinu võrguühendusi, lisaks veel hallata süsteemi kasutajaid ning kasutajagruppe. Praegu on need süsteemi tööriistad mõeldud küll rohkem üksikute arvutite, mitte tervete gruppide jaoks.

GNOME 2.12-ga tuleb kaasa uus Teenuste haldamise tööriist, mis lubab kasutajal valida milliseid teenuseid arvuti töölepanekul käivitatakse.

Joonis 17Teenuste haldamise tööriist

2.4. Süsteemilogi vaataja

The GNOME log viewer makes investigation easier by showing all logs in one tabbed window and allowing you to browse logs in a calendar. The new version navigator also helps when viewing archived logs.

Joonis 18Süsteemilogi vaataja