We need a Yast in Fedora

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Mon Nov 27 05:17:29 UTC 2006


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
>   
>> I hated YAST. A truly horrible interface. What we have
>> just plain works. Ric
>>     
>
> snip ...
>
> In my opinion, this, and Anaconda,
> are the two weakest parts of Fedora.
>
>
>   

Ahem.  There is nothing in any other distro to compete with kick start 
and anaconda for automated installs.

Jumpstart for Solaris is without a doubt the most mature automated 
configuration tool on the planet for UNIX based systems.

Kick Start and anaconda fare quite well against Jumpstart.  That is not 
a mild complement.

For many of us, our users never get involved with installing anything on 
their systems.  Literally hundreds of desktops can be stamped out in a 
day, with hardware variances accounted for, using kick start and anaconda.

So to be specific, there are some aspects of anaconda which a user would 
see if doing the install themselves that you don't approve of.  I can 
accept that.

For many of us, anaconda and kick start are why we follow fedora and 
recommend RH to our customers. :)




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