We need a Yast in Fedora

[Anoop Chandran]

On 11/27/06, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
>
> 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. :)


True.
I am one happy RH guy who've done ~300 installs in a day, using kickstart
and anaconda.
+1 for the thoughts.


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