Granular Control Center
From Granular Linux Documentation
Introduction
Granular Control Center is based on the famous Mandriva Control Center. The Control Center is an easily accessible utility in Granular which greatly eases the major system management tasks for the end user. It presents itself to the user in a very user-friendly interface and makes use of wizards to perform different tasks. Granular Control Center is capable of performing almost all the system management stuff, along with customizing some aspects of the Granular desktop.
How to access Granular Control Center through command-line?
The interested ones can access Granular Control Center through command-line by issuing the command "drakconf".
What kind of management tasks are possible with Granular Control Center?
Some of the most common system & desktop management tasks have been mentioned below:
- Configuring the bootloader options (GRUB/LILO)
- Changing the bootsplash theme
- Displaying the summary of system hardware
- Configuring various hardware components, like monitor, scanner, mouse, keyboard, printer, TV tuner, UPS, sound system.
- Managing network sharing (printer & file)
- Managing hard disk partitions
- Setting up and managing network interfaces (eg., Internet connection)
- Configuring the various security options
- Managing users and groups
Some of the advanced management tasks include:
- Setting up a web server
- Setting up Samba sharing (configuring sharing with Windows systems)
- Remotely controlling another computer
- Setting up Proxy server, VPN connections
- Enabling/disabling system services
