Webmin turns 10 and has nearly 9 million downloads

Just a short post today to celebrate Webmin’s 10th birthday! I managed to corner Jamie and force him to answer a few questions for this interview at In the Box (In the Box is the official Webmin blog), and we’re running a logo contest over on SitePoint which is going swimmingly…it’s the most popular contest running right now.

I think it’s pretty cool that Webmin is going to cross the 9 million download (from SourceForge…hard to say how many downloads from other sources) mark during Webmin’s birthday month.

I started using Webmin over 8 years ago, in an early pre-1.0 version, and it’s saved me so much time and effort over the years…it’s a real staple of the system administrator diet, along with: OpenSSH (which turned 9 last month!), vim, lsof, strace, and lots more. Open Source has really had an impact on the systems management market–perhaps more in that field than any other–and Webmin is an important part of that, and I’m excited to be a part of it.