On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:38:52AM -0300, James Oakley wrote: : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- : Hash: SHA1 : : On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:05 am, Filipe Joel de Almeida wrote: : ...snip... : > Right now I'm trying to choose between Red Hat and Suse. One of my friends : > (who is a Red Hat fan) told me that he didn't like SUSE because we were a : > bit dependant on their configuration tools (I think he mentioned YAST). : : Every distro has their own configuration tools. Red Hat has a terrible mix of : undocumented, not-well-thought-out stuff: Anaconda, up2date, *cfg, etc. There : appears to be no rhyme or reason to it all, codewise or userwise (I've been : through all that code and I still sometimes have nightmares. I can also tell : you of some *very* disturbing features of up2date I discovered...). YaST2 is : amazing in comparison. It's very well documented at the code level, and : everything is integrated nicely in one place. : : However, I recommend you try both to get a feel for the various features. I have to agree with James 100% on this one. I hardly ever use YaST2 after the initial setup. I'm ol' skool in the respect that I enjoy hand-editing configuration files. At least SuSE goes through the effort of being consistent with their config file placement. And all the stuff in /etc/sysconfig is commented (unlike Redhat). Way to go SuSE!!! --Jerry -- Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!