We need a Yast in Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/26/06, jim tate <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> 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.

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