Re: [SLE] Challenge to SuSE: GPL Open Source Yast 1
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 21:05, you wrote:
Ok, scsijon-tpg, Go for it and quit your bitchin'! The source code is there waiting for you to do with it as you please, just don't try to sell it later! If you had something to whine about, it would be different, but everything is available to do the things you did with Yast1, using other programs. If you would get your head out of your butt and learn to use the newer more useful programs available, you would find there are no grounds for all your whining! Of course, if you are too old and set in your ways to make change, I guess we can understand that too. ;o)
But if you are bitchin' & whining just to hear yourself yell or if it seems to make you feel better doing it, then do it quietly please the rest of us are ok with the changes SuSE has made!
Patrick
While I do not endorse the tone of the original post, I can certainly identify with his frustration regarding the loss of YaST1. And please do not presume to speak for "the rest of us." I - for one - am very unhappy with SuSE's decision to remove YaST1. I and another colleague have given it our best shot to make a YaST1->YaST2 switchover and have ultimately given up. I believe YaST1 is simply a far more intuitive, flexible and useful tool than it's successor (when it comes to a number of specific tasks). That - along with what appears to me to be an unusually large litany of compaints about version 8.0 - are why we plan to sit out on the upgrades until a better built version is made available. I certainly would not leave SuSE over this point (their product is so obviously superior to any other distributor's, in my opinion), but I also think they need to be a bit more attentive to their users' expressed needs and desires. For the record, I think the recent request for feedback to their marketing people was such an effort. -Thomas Long -- Using SuSE Linux 7.3
On donderdag 9 mei 2002 06:02, Thomas Long wrote:
best shot to make a YaST1->YaST2 switchover and have ultimately given up. I believe YaST1 is simply a far more intuitive, flexible and useful tool than it's successor (when it comes to a number of specific tasks). That - along
Out of curiousty, which specific tasks? Did people look at the XST toolset to replace yast1? http://primates.ximian.com/~chema/xst/ The good thing of XST is that it is distro - and frontend independent. So it can be with an ascii frontend e.g. So if developments are started to maintain yast1, why don't one help to maintain/improve XST? This email of where XST is going has been posted recently: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-April/000695... it continues here: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-May/000698.h... -- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless
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