Re: We need a Yast in Fedora

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On 11/26/06, jim tate <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 11/26/06, jim tate <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Charles Curley wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:20:55AM -0500, jim tate wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have been to a couple of meetings here in
>> >> Indiana, USA and Indiana is working at present to move all it's
>> school
>> >> desktops/servers to Suse, becaues they
>> >> think that Yast is the one App. that makes
>> >> Linux easy to work with and I agree.
>> >> They like Fedora but it doesn't have a Yast type App.
>> >> 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.
>> >> I'am a strong Fedora user and I teach
>> >> people on the outside of the school system
>> >> on Fedora.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Unix philosophy: lots of small programs, each of which does one thing
>> > very well, which one can string together to do things the designers
>> > never thought of.
>> >
>> > Windows philosophy: One big program that lets you do only what the
>> > designers think you should be able to do. "We're from Microsoft and we
>> > know more about what you're doing than you do."
>> >
>> > If they think that YAST is "the one App. that makes Linux easy to work
>> > with" then they haven't done enough research. There are may such apps,
>> > not least the Red Hat collection of system-config-* tools. Nor have
>> > they tried to do things that YAST does not let them do.
>> >
>> >
>> Fedora has a lot of good tools , but their not consolidated.
>> I know Yast has a lot of bugs in it . If you ever install a video card
>> in Suse, it is most like is not detected.
>> But I'm talking about consolidating hardware/software tools into one gui
>> where a new person
>> can find them.
>> In KDE, Administration is half way there, but it's not a default
>> install, and doesn't have software control.
>> All the tools are there in Fedora, if you been using Fedora for 6 mo. to
>> a year, you know where they are,
>> but a newbie doesn't, and newbies are what will make the
>> opensource/Linux grow.
>>
>
> What you haven't explained, and I would like to understand is how a
> newbie won't be able to find the Administration sub menu.
>
Because the KDEadmin is not installed as default.


I am running KDE... but I do believe everything in the Administration
menu has nothing to do with KDE; they are all system config tools. I
would aggree that we need more of them, but they are all 2 clicks
away.

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