[ale] Newbee needing help #6

[Paul Cartwright]

James Taylor wrote:
> Interesting - 
> 
> YAST was one of the reasons I picked SUSE as my distribution way back when.
> It was the easiest, most logical admin tool I had found for linux, and it still is for me.
> I don't really have any strong feelings about whether the tools I use are closed or open source, as long as they don't require windows too run them.
> 
> For what it's worth, NOvell opens sourced YAST over a year ago.
> 

> 
> Good to know the feedback on that. I didn't use Suse for a long time
> because Yast was closed source (it just _felt_ dirty...). Suse was
> instrumental in getting many graphics chips supported and for a long
> time Yast was the only way to sanely install the drivers.

I run SUSE, but I also use the smart package manager for it:)
with 10.0 you can use smart, just like apt-get, but it is better.
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Paul Cartwright
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