We need a Yast in Fedora

jim tate mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 25 14:29:13 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2006 17:11, jim tate wrote:
>   
>> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:20:55 -0500
>>>
>>> jim tate <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> It wouldn't be hard to make a Gui like Yast in Fedora, because Fedora
>>>> has the system-config-* apps and to get them to work in a single gui
>>>> wouldn't be hard.
>>>>         
>>> Think of the "Administration" menu item as yast then :-).
>>>
>>> Actually, yast annoys me (though it probably isn't yast itself,
>>> but the things suse just does different on the admin side - I can
>>> never figure out how to get some things fixed without running
>>> yast - which is a pain when it would be simpler to just edit
>>> some file via a simple ssh session - I'm just not familiar with
>>> all the right files on suse :-).
>>>       
>> Your right Tom, But these Linux newbies aren't you and I , that
>> live-breathe-smoke the the CLI.
>>
>>     
> Have they seen kde control center, with all the plugins installed?  I would 
> have thought that they could do everything they need from there.
>
> Anne
>   
You have to try Yast to understand what I'm talking about.

Jim




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