Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Richard Bos <allabos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On woensdag 29 mei 2002 20:10, Keith Winston wrote:
> Does it mean the installer will be the same on all distros?  
> Will YaST2 go away or become the standard on other distros?
> Does Caldera keep their per seat license, while the others don't?

To what do you refer with installer, YaST2 the system configurator, or to an 
rpm package installer...?

For the package installer the following can be said: Conectiva (1 of 4 
distro's) ported APT from .deb to .rpm.  And as you may have noticed lately 
APT is available for SuSE and it works quite well....  So Conectiva would be 
crazy to give it up, and SuSE would be crazy to not adapt it!
APT for SuSE can be found at: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm

A unified system configurator is already being developed.  It consist of 
system  dependend backend tools and system independ frontend tools.  The 
tools can be of any GUI (web, qt, kde, ascii, gtk, is there more?).

Some references:
http://primates.ximian.com/~chema/xst/

This email of where XST is going has been posted recently:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-April/000695.html
it continues here:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-May/000698.html

The good thing it would not only work at linux, but all the other *nix's as 
well.

-- 
Richard Bos
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