Brad Hinson wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Mark Post wrote:
like YaST, and wish Red Hat had a similar "one place to go to" for
administration functions.
I've been arguing that one for years, before I'd even encountered YAST.
Brad? I reckon that some of the RH admin tools are there just so RH can
mark checkboxes, "Got that."
(treading carefully as to not spark YaST a holy war..)
Red Hat evaluated YaST long ago when it was proprietary, but by the time
it was open sourced, we had written Anaconda and decided to fully focus
on it. Since then, we've considered some all-in-one tools like
system-config-control:
http://www.indianoss.org/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=10
which is a front-end to the system-config-* GUIs, but this hasn't made
it to RHEL.
I haven't used YaST much recently, but it seems like a good tool. But
we don't want to just add a YaST clone to RHEL (YaYaST?) :) Instead,
we're focusing on our current system-config tools, like
system-config-network for example, which got a huge z/Linux update for
RHEL 5.2.
It's not YAST that's important, it's the idea. Yast is much more than an
installer, and it's specially nice that if one tries to configure (say)
a web server and the needed software's not installed, it offers to
install it.
Mandrake 7 or so had a similar idea, there was a KDE folder-like object
containing the configuration tools
gnome-control-center, control-centre implement the same idea for GNOME
and KDE respectively, Apple's System Preferences, Windows' Control Panel
all provide a centralised set of configuration tools.
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John
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