Hi Philipp,

Things will be different in the upcoming 7.2 ;-) And no, there's no fixed release date yet.

Please, make it some time in September or October or later.... I just got 7.1 working just how I want it to. ;-) -Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============

* Geordon VanTassle (gvantass@thecoventree.com) [20010505 22:10]:

Tease! Any idea about what sort of things we can expect in 7.2?

Certainly ;-) But many things are still in flux and could be removed or changed before the masters are fixed, so I'll refrain from talking about things that might not make it. [mega quote deleted] <soapbox> Please have a look at http://learn.to/quote . It would make mails much easier to read. </soapbox> Philipp -- Philipp Thomas Development, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany Penguins shall save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt about Linux on S/390

Great to hear, Philipp. And perhaps even rename 'YaST2' to 'SuSE Config' or something more logical. :)

Actually the backend of YaST and YaST2 is called SuSEconfig. -Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============

Nope ;-) YaST2 will keep its name.

Bah! Vanity! :)

Quoting Terence McCarthy :

Yet another Sentence Truncated 2!

:) Seriously though, Mandrake has understood the usefulness of descriptive names and renamed their 'DrakConf' to 'Mandrake Control Center'. I surely hope SuSE comes to a similar conclusion sometime in the future. Maybe even take it a step further and drop the idea of many different control panels and try to integrate them all (including the KDE control modules) into an easily browsable and accessible 'SuSE manager'. Regards, Mattias

On Sunday 06 May 2001 18:00, Mattias Dahlberg wrote:

Quoting Terence McCarthy :

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Yet another Sentence Truncated 2!

:)

Seriously though, Mandrake has understood the usefulness of descriptive names and renamed their 'DrakConf' to 'Mandrake Control Center'. I surely hope SuSE comes to a similar conclusion sometime in the future.

Maybe even take it a step further and drop the idea of many different control panels and try to integrate them all (including the KDE control modules) into an easily browsable and accessible 'SuSE manager'.

Regards, Mattias

Yes, one of the problems to acceptance of Linux, is, I think, the way in which different distributions handle this problem. I have to confess to having difficulty when dealing with non-SuSE distributions for other people. "But" they say, "I thought you knew about Linux...." My unfamiliarity with other configuration tools does me no credit, but Linux possibly less. What is needed, perhaps, is a de facto standard such as RPM, for a Linux configurator- "Linset" or something, which although set up by each distributor to suit their individual way of presenting Linux, would give a degree of commonality to setting up all distributions. This should have both command line and X versions, obviously, and the high standard of documentation we know and love (in most cases!). This would certainly help me in helping those who choose Linux (but don't choose SuSE Linux), and so present a common front to those learning how to use Linux and so encouraging use of my favourite OS. Apart from what I think about the desirability of provide a degree of similarity across systems, I am not so sure about the names aspect. YaST has an understandable acronym, it is distinctly SuSE, and, at a later date, and Open Source, could provide the basis for a semi-standard configuration programme. YaST is certainly easier to cope with as a name than the cumbersome "Mandrake Control Center" (or "centre" as we native English speakers prefer!). Anyway, Yet another Stimulating Thread -or 2! :-)) Terence

But YaST2 *is* completely integrated into the KDE control centre and that's way it is meant to be. Not the other way 'round.

Philipp

But, Philipp, some of us might choose not to use KDE........... Terence

Mattias Dahlberg a écrit :

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Nope ;-) YaST2 will keep its name.

Bah! Vanity! :)

Call it Yast2 or anything else. The point to me is that it's unusable on my computer : it locks every time it tries to recognize my SCSI controler (a TEKRAM 390 T), if the module is already loaded. Otherwise it simply ignores it. Should SuSe remove Yast1, I'd have to go back to RH... -- Alain DIDIERJEAN 01 64 23 10 15 I was born too young ~adj~ 06 74 53 71 81 in too old a world...