FYI: This is a form letter. the sent me exactly the same thing today, and the words are _exaclty_ the same. That's louzy. I'm not impressed. Actually I am impressed - and it's a bad impression. IT was kind of funny because my lette consisted of "There are things in YaST which are NOT in YaST2" and the form-letter-response starts right off talking about how YaST2 has more features then YaST ever had.... the liars. Keep it up SuSE, and you won't have any customers left in a few years. But personally, I think they'llsnap out of it. At least I sure hope so. If anyone ever finds a way to setup an aliased ip _with_ YaST2 (not by hand) I'd sure like to know how you did it ;-) On Sunday 28 April 2002 05:13 am, you wrote:
For those who might be interested below is a copy of my email to the feedback team and their response. I hope it answers all questions about why yast1 was removed. I guess if folks feel strongly enough or have suggestions about yast1 they contact feedback@suse.de, too.
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Subject: Ticket [20020426990000291] Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:30:01 +0200 From: Feedback <feedback@suse.de> To: ForeverCheerful <eddie.howson@dsl.pipex.com>
Dear SuSE Linux user,
Thanks a lot for your mail to the SuSE feedback team.
You wrote:
Hi All
Let me first say that I have been generally pleased with SuSE over the few years that I have been using SuSE. I know that it was felt prudent for whatever reason to terminate Yast1 but I do find the manual version of Yast2 with the constant need to tab burdensome. I much rather the menu selection feature of yast1.
More critically, in the past, I have found it useful to download update rpm's to my local drive. Then, at my convenience, I could view the updates and compare them with what I currently have installed and choose whether or not to install them. If later I chose to install a new package I could always check if an update already exists on my local drive. This gave me a greater feeling of control over my system. I was able to do this through yast1 as well as use it to manage rpm's from sources other than suse.com and mirror sites. Again, I am not able to do this through the manually version of yast2 and consequently feel that I have lost a degree of control over my system.
While it may be thought of as unwise to reinstate yast1, it would be nice if some consideration could be given to adding some more of yast1's functionality and features to the manual version of yast2.
Thanks for listening.
Eddie
-- Make the most of life. Say something nice to someone, today.
Beginning with version 8.0 YaST1 is not longer part of SuSE Linux. This installation tool was not sufficient to do the things our users requested it to do. From a technical point of view it was not possible to maintain YaST1 and YaST2 simultaneously and the former one was too hard to upgrade with a reasonable effort.
The worthy follower is YaST2: It already provides more access to the various parts of SuSE Linux than YaST1 ever did. We especially cared about two things: Speed and complete control over SuSE Linux.
While YaST2 is primarily intended to be used in a graphical environment, a lot of users also want to use it in textmode. For this reason we improved its perfomance here e.g. you can select all important areas by keyboard shortcuts now.
Because of its modular design YaST2 is prepared for future developments. We constantly work on improving it and we look forward to get your feedback on YaST2.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Kind regards,
Uwe Drechsel (feedback@suse.de)
SuSE GmbH, E-Mail: feedback@suse.de Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 WWW : http://www.suse.de/ 90429 Nuernberg