Comments on: Releasing YaST separately?

By: nt

nt — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:21:09 +0000

Please make yast have a parallel downloading system!

By: neo

neo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:44:44 +0000

Tools like system-config-printer from Fedora is being used by Ubuntu and Mandriva while nobody except SUSE uses Yast. You got to think why.

By: Justin Zandbergen

Justin Zandbergen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:46:40 +0000

I would really really really love to see YaST come to every Linux distro out there. That would be such a boost for linux in general because YaST is something that hasn’t found it’s equivalent on any other distro imho. Maybe i’m saying this in the wrong place , but ubuntu is doing a great job nowadays and you here more and more people are using it (even “normal people” ) but it sure lacks a good (and now the most important word) CONSISTENT setup-tool which is holding people back to switch to linux, or even worse, sending them back to “the other” OS.

(oh please unleash te power of YaST upon the world! )

By: Zonker

Zonker — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:32:40 +0000

Difficult, how? Because it’s different than equivalent tools for Windows, or because of some other reason.

Partitioning has always been a problem for Linux, because it’s just not intuitive — not saying that it’s non-intuitive in YaST, I’m saying in general. It’s hard for many users because they’ve never had to do it before — also, it’s just a wee bit scary, I’m sure, the first time you have to muck with partitioning.

Specific feedback would be welcome.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:30:45 +0000

Thanks. If you’d like to help in the porting effort, I’m sure the YaST team would be happy to give guidance.

By: Alojz Stanich

Alojz Stanich — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:19:36 +0000

I am a general user (lay) of openSUSE. I don’t know what to think. I meet contradictions about Yast. From the side of experts I read great praise about Yast,
from the general users’ side is different:
in real life Linux is not much present – and openSUSE quite less –> Why? Because of Yast (and partitioning). Yast is difficult or complicated. [To manage repositories Debian-Ubuntu sort of distributions there is still more difficul.] What about the future?

By: Terry kemp

Terry kemp — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:31:08 +0000

I run LUG with as part of a larger user group (about 7500 members) , I personally use OpenSuse since days before Novell most of the my sig members use Ubuntu and in my sitiuration it would be great to hav YaST on for debian as it is by far the best tool for configuration tool around.

Regards Terry Kemp

Committee Member of Melbpc User Group

Co-Convener
Linux & Open Source Sig