[jcook818]

It is an operating system with a control panel, but the control panel is/will be a lot more comprehensive than Webmin or analogous server management apps. Whereas Webmin gives you a web interface with which to manage your server, if you don't understand how Apache/nginx/etc work then you still won't be able to add your own website, for example. If you have no idea about mail relays, virtual domains and so on, you probably will be way over your head if you try to host your own email. Genesis grinds the learning curve down as much as possible, by allowing websites (or other plugins like email/XMPP and so on) to be added with wizards and non-complicated language. Closer to Zentyal's web administration systems than that of Webmin. But it still represents a big improvement over how Zentyal works when we are just talking about personal use.