On 11/26/06, jim tate <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:20:55AM -0500, jim tate wrote: > >> I have been to a couple of meetings here in >> Indiana, USA and Indiana is working at present to move all it's school >> desktops/servers to Suse, becaues they >> think that Yast is the one App. that makes >> Linux easy to work with and I agree. >> They like Fedora but it doesn't have a Yast type App. >> It wouldn't be hard to make a Gui like Yast in Fedora, because Fedora >> has the system-config-* apps and to get them to work in a single gui >> wouldn't be hard. >> I'am a strong Fedora user and I teach >> people on the outside of the school system >> on Fedora. >> > > Unix philosophy: lots of small programs, each of which does one thing > very well, which one can string together to do things the designers > never thought of. > > Windows philosophy: One big program that lets you do only what the > designers think you should be able to do. "We're from Microsoft and we > know more about what you're doing than you do." > > If they think that YAST is "the one App. that makes Linux easy to work > with" then they haven't done enough research. There are may such apps, > not least the Red Hat collection of system-config-* tools. Nor have > they tried to do things that YAST does not let them do. > > Fedora has a lot of good tools , but their not consolidated. I know Yast has a lot of bugs in it . If you ever install a video card in Suse, it is most like is not detected. But I'm talking about consolidating hardware/software tools into one gui where a new person can find them. In KDE, Administration is half way there, but it's not a default install, and doesn't have software control. All the tools are there in Fedora, if you been using Fedora for 6 mo. to a year, you know where they are, but a newbie doesn't, and newbies are what will make the opensource/Linux grow.
What you haven't explained, and I would like to understand is how a newbie won't be able to find the Administration sub menu. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
