We need a Yast in Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/26/06, jim tate <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 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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