On Friday 11 June 2004 12:08, Eugene Lee wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:33:11AM -0400, Mike McMullin wrote: : On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:58, Eugene Lee wrote: : > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:06:23AM -0700, Riccardo Facchini wrote: : > : Question N? 2: Where's the "simple control panel" on M$? I know of : > : the Control Panel, but I can't say is "Simple"... : > : > I never mentioned M$. I don't care about M$. : : What other OS has something called a Control Panel, which you : mentioned in your article?
I used the term "control panel" because other people were throwing the term around in previous posting along this thread. I figured the term had become generic enough for me to use without question, lest someone from M$ gets a patent on the term.
Regarding the term's origin, the original OS term "control panel" came from old Mac OS (known as "System" in the older days).
: > : > > Here we go again the M$ Corp mentality if windBlows has git it : > : > > then Linux is no good without it ho Hummmmmm : > : > Point #3: You guys need to drop the notion that criticism of SuSE is : > neither constructive nor useful. If you continue to believe that SuSE : > is perfect, YaST is feature-complete, etc. (when in reality it's not), : > then nothing will ever improve. : : SuSE isn't perfect, Yast isn't as full featured as a number of folks : would like, but it beats the pants off of editing all of those : configuration files by hand, and then restarting the appropriate : services by hand. With Novell having GPL'ed it, I expect to see : expanded usability.
I hope so too. I'm used to the traditional Unix workflow of editing some config file, saving it, hunting for the daemon's PID, sending a HUP (or just killing/restarting it if it doesn't support that signal), etc. I definitely agree that YaST has made a lot of things much easier.
You can still do it the old way, of course - and pretty handy if you are obliged to work over a slow modem connection from another continent, as I can attest. I hadn't realised the SuSE ifconfig isn't able to set the card speed / duplex etc., because I've never wanted to do it, but I strongly suspect that YaST calls ifconfig and ifconfig would need adding to / substituting for before a graphical front end can be constructed. -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk