Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[Derek Fountain <fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> it is a step toward newcomers from M$,, but scraping Yast1 is
> to early decison [ it is step back - nice but not so good in functionality
> [ Who needs pull gui for instaloation  and admin task ? ] ]
>
> > If Suse don't release a "Suse 7.4" with kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 or a
> > Suse 8.1 WITH Yast1 or MUCH MUCH more fast and friendly
> > Yast 2 I will stay away from Suse until now !! ( and my clients too !! )
>
> Good idea.

We've been over this. See the list archives from a couple of months back. The 
bottom line is that SuSE saw YaST1 as having reached the end of its life, and 
that a new tool was needed for a more modern distro. The code to YaST1 is 
available if anyone wants to have a stab at updating it to work with 8.0, 
but, strangely, when the amount of work involved was spelled out, the people 
threatening to do just that shut up.

YaST2 is the future. I'm right behind you with many of your complaints about 
it, particularly about the slow, heavy GUI interface, and the unusable text 
interface. SuSE can't of failed to have heard the complaining, so we'll have 
to see what improvements 8.1 brings. If the answer is "none", then I suspect 
many will vote with their feet and change distros. The others will just learn 
to get along with YaST2.

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