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Yes, I think there should be a section in YaST2 for people who depend on YaST2 to do what they need as far as system administration that lets one decide what services are run at boot. I know there is a run level editor but I'd say that 10 out of 10 newbies wouldn't know what a run level even is. So maybe renaming the run level editor to something like "services editor" or something like that might work for the OSX and Windows people who come over to SuSE...since that's what it is under those platforms.
My point was that hardware scan and the rpmchecker are two things that people seem to like. I heard NO end to how Mandrake was better then SuSE because it did a hardware scan at boot and configured new hardware automatically. Newbies seem to love that silly crap...I however would rather just have hardware scanning as a function in YaST2 or something like that. I'm not much of a fan of auto anything..
I think this is a prime example of a feature update for the next version, say
8.3 (please please don't jump to 9.x yet - RH is getting a bit silly in this
regard). I totally agree with your take on the run level editor - I'm that
noob that had no idea, and for a while, what to do with that thing - except
be intimidated by it (worried I do something like catch my computer on fire
or something - I don't know :/ ).
I think as RH and SuSE both give the option to get package updates before the
first post-install boot, They should have some options for the gui heads to
point them in the right directions. I mean if your gonna hold hands then
take them to school, not the park (if you get what I mean). Having some
options like, before going to an install/setup of say... a modem... if it
hangs, then the users boots back and knows his/her modem causes the intall to
take a big dump, then most will figure out (at least after 2 or 3 times of
failure) that maybe they want to forego trying to detect that modem and just
get the system up and running first. Likewise for the services. Yes, admins
and penguins know about the innserv [option/arg}