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From: "Silviu Marin-Caea"
You are not really dependant on YaST, but what if you were, is that such a Bad Thing (tm)? YaST makes it easy for you to configure stuff that you'd have otherwise to know how to configure yourself. YaST does not "hide the Linux" from you; the Linux is there for you to look at (/etc/sysconfig/), but what if you particularly don't really want to, or don't have time right now to do it? Also YaST will reduce the changes of a newbie messing the system up.
SuSE has a lot more software in the kit that Red Hat does. And, most
As several persons have mentioned it, YaST is excellent if you are a newbie. BUT, SuSE lets you edit those config files by hand, and everything works fine. And (if i am wrong, please correct me), even if you m anually change a config file that has to affect other programs/applications/OS configs, you only have to type "SuSEconfig", and it will execute automatically everything that YaST will do too... :) -------------------------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Torres Ch.