On 11/26/06, jim tate <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote: > 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. > Because the KDEadmin is not installed as default.
I am running KDE... but I do believe everything in the Administration menu has nothing to do with KDE; they are all system config tools. I would aggree that we need more of them, but they are all 2 clicks away. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
