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Oldtyme Unix and Linux geeks love to rail endlessly about the wonders of the command line, and the perfect awfulness of graphical interfaces for system administration. It is true that the full power of an operating system is found at the command line, and that it is difficult for a GUI to include all the available command options and script-ability of the CLI. And running X Window on a server is rather silly — a waste of system resources and unnecessary complexity. But different folks are comfortable with different tools, for example, I can't imagine trying to get along without a graphical file browser. Typing long filepaths and complex commands that can be handled with simple drag-n-drop is not a good use of my time. And even if it weren't more efficient, it's my choice, and by dang that's all anyone else needs to know about it.
I use Webmin from time to time on a couple of Rackspace servers I manage. The interface is nicely done and there are a lot of modules. On most servers, though, I use the command line. I don't want to start a flame war, but I don't want to base my system admin tool on Perl. There is a lot great stuff written in Perl, but I find it clunky to manage all the modules if I have to install it on a clean system or do an upgrade. I would hate up upgrade my Perl version only to find that half of the Webmin modules stopped working. I've spent hours tracking down and installing obscure modules to try out some new system written in Perl. Even for text chunking, I prefer bash and awk. But I'm drifting off topic. Webmin can be a useful admin tool.
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