Targeted to desktop users:
These tools are intended to simplify the tasks of configuring a Unix system for workstations. They are not intended for configuring Unix servers.
Unified system configuration:
Configuring different Unix systems is different; every Unix system has different ways of being administrated. The GNOME System Tools aspire to unify these systems.
Multi-platform:
Each one of the GNOME System Tools is split in two parts: a backend (which is typically written in Perl) and a user interface frontend (which is typically written in C or Python).
The backends are written in a way that should allow us to quickly adapt them to various different flavors of Unix; the backend probes your system and parses the existing system files. When the user has finished editing the system settings, the configuration is written back as patches to the system files.
This means that the GNOME System Tools use whatever configuration files are available on your system, and you can still edit those files by hand or with other configuration tools without conflicts or data loss.
Introduction: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/
Mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/system-tools-list
FTP: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/
GNOME git: Module "gnome-system-tools". http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-system-tools
IRC: irc.gnome.org, #gst
Developers: Chema Celorio chema@ximian.com Hans Petter Jansson hpj@ximian.com Arturo Espinosa arturo@ximian.com Tambet Ingo tambet@ximian.com Jacob Berkman jacob@ximian.com Bradford Hovinen hovinen@ximian.com Carlos Garnacho Parro garparr@teleline.es Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimilan@club.fr
Artists: Anna Dirks anna@ximian.com Jakub Steiner jimmac@ximian.com Tuomas Kuosmanen tigert@ximian.com Joakim Ziegler joakim@ximian.com
Please send any patches or technical questions/requests to the developers.