Three quick questions please…
(1) What is Yast?
(2) What will it do for me?
(3) Why doesn’t Ubuntu have it?
YAST is your one stop shop for all your Linux configuration needs.
It will do almost everything you need in Linux. Hardware, software, users and groups, etc.
We all wonder that same thing.
its all in here: http://en.opensuse.org/Yast
YaST is an application holding many applications which is a software
manager (installs, updates, upgrades or uninstalls applications), a
configurator (of networks and their access, groups, users, hardware,
security features and etc etc etc)
Ubuntu doesn’t have it because they use apt and variety of
configuration applications…
some folks like this way, some like it that way…some like it Apple’s
way, etc etc etc…
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palladium
palladium wrote:
> its all in here: http://en.opensuse.org/Yast
and i should’a added
-=welcome=-
but i was in too big a hurry to find someone else to help!
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palladium
I will answer all three:
What is Yast?
YAST is a all in one system control center, sort of like the one in windows but with a bonus with the package installer.
What will it do for me?
All sorts of things, give you control over certain aspects of the OS, configure wireless, internet and sound card, install packages.
Why doesn’t Ubuntu have it?
Because Ubuntu has its own tools, plus it makes great use out of Gnomes control center.
You can spice Ubuntu up a little though by installing customize ubuntu
They have already told you what YAST is, so I won’t. I will say that I find YAST to be a very handy management tool because it provides a gui environment for those wanting one whether you are in GUI login or a console login.
That’s because YAST has an Ncurses equivalent that allows an easy to use admin/config environment in a console when the GUI isn’t working correctly.
This is beneficial to those coming from predominantly GUI backgrounds.
YAST is only one of the reasons Ifind myself leaning on opensuse more and more as my preferred desktop/workstation distro.
(I still prefer CentOS and Debian for my servers, but that’s another story)
Big Bear
YAST is to SUSE as Control Panel is to Windows.
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AZC
Andrew Z Carpenter wrote:
> YAST is to SUSE as Control Panel is to Windows.
what is a Windows?
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palladium
I guess it’s some transparent stuff that can break when you throw a stone at it? :\ And apparently it can also be used as a phone to phone home these days… Well… Technologies advance fast… 
Windows is a means by which unauthorized personnel can gain access to places that they shouldn’t be or aren’t wanted. This can be a building, car, computer, etc…
what is a Windows?
a) wooden frames with glass.
b) a giant computer virus.
What is a Windows
A Windows is a crippled Wii.
ok you guys…
the point i was trying to make (not very well i see) to the poster who
answered a YaST question as if the questioner knew what a Windows
Control Panel is, was:
Maybe the guy comes here from a Mac (or AIX, BSD, Ubunty, PlayStation,
etc etc etc) and has NO idea what a Windows Control Panel, what it
does, how it looks etc etc etc…
i guess i’m just a little too sensitive that so many folks here assume
all “computer users” have a vast background knowledge of Redmond–we
SO often get questions like “What do you use instead of Windows
DuFlache Pro?”
how should i know?
i also don’t know what Linux program replaces a Mac’s DeSlanger…so,
duh!
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palladium