Max Webb wrote:
Some advice: First, if someone is acquainted with YaST2 and SuSE Linux, chooses to be a SuSE Linux user and wants to whine about ones dislike like of YaST2, maybe that person shouldn't complain. Maybe that person should use another distro and whine about that one. In my opinion, the new YaST2 is the finest prepackaged, GUI based, system administration tool avaliable as part of any Linux distribution.........
..........<snip all of the rest of the ranting>.............. Yeah, well Max, maybe if you had a major problem with Yast2 you wouldn't think that way. I am truly glad that you have not had any problems.If I had a really good clean installation without problems I might feel the same way you do. BUT I don't.... Yast2 does SUCK when it cannot do a relatively simple task such as install an approved commmon modem of which there are thousands of them out there, a US Robotics 3 Com 56K PCI modem. I have been a SuSE user since 6.4,7.1,7.3,and now 8.0, paying good money for all of them. I love the distro but Yast2 SUCKS and so does YOU. Up through 7.3 I could configure this modem with Yast1. With 8.0 I had to laboriously configure it by hand with all of the configuration files to make it work. Now I have stupidly upgraded files from SuSE and the GD modem doesn't work again. Useless Yast2 does nothing but hang and now I can't figure out what has gone wrong. That is why this message comes from a Windoze environment. God, how I hate that!! When I first installed 8.0 SuSE support told me they wouldn't support the modem installation. Really don't understand the reasoning there. What good is a distro that cannot communicate with the outside world? Maybe if they would bend a little bit on their policy when it involved Yast2 there wouldn't be so many unhappy SuSE users out here. There is an old saying about opinions and criticisms; something about "walking in another man's shoes" Myself and others have a real legitimate gripe. Have you bought and paid for 4 separate distros of SuSE? Bob S.