Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (107 mails)

[Roger Whittaker <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:08:23PM -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

> One of the questions I am asked frequently: What makes openSUSE unique
> among Linux distros?

Definitely YaST (including the initial installer) and AutoYaST.
Compared with (for example) the Fedora/RH installer and kickstart
tool, YaST and AutoYaST are just vastly better in every way.  I don't
know very much about automated installation on Debian-like systems,
but I think AutoYaST wins there too for ease of use at least.

Another great thing about YaST is the way the functionality is exactly
the same whether you use it in graphical mode or text (ncurses) mode.
Again comparing to Fedora, the last time I looked there was (for
example) system-config-network-tui and system-config-network-gui
(names from memory) and their functionality is actually different.
 
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