Reading Fabio's original post, I see his 'test bed' is a pentium 150 - and that is just *too slow* for yast2 (GUI *or* console). In fact, on a 150, it's going to be pretty impossible to run any GUI.
Rubbish. You can get perfectly acceptable GUI performance from a low end 486 if you run a light enough desktop environment. I've done it, and so have many of the older Linux hands on this list. Expecting to run the standard administration application on a low end machine should not result in unacceptable performance. A GUI will always run slower than a console based app, so running in text mode is the obvious option, except in the case of YaST2 because the text mode user interface is so hard to use. -- 12:59pm up 5 days, 3:38, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.04