On Monday 15 March 2004 03:52, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Perhaps, but it is also arguable that the proprietary nature of YaST and SaX is the essence to SuSE's business success.
Nonsense. Do you really think some other distro would adopt Yast? Its more than a little complex. SuSE is successfull because (with the exception of 8.1) they put out a solid distro with far less dicking around needed to get it up and running and productive. It installs far more securely out of the box than many, and most things just work. Peopel recompile SuSE kernels because the WANT to not because they HAVE to. Yast is not particularly better than some of the other configuration tools, and often makes it hard to known what is being set and where the settings are stored. But to its credit it does cover lots of settings. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen