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YaST to Become Open Source

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the changes-of-heart dept.

Space_Soldier writes "According to News.com, YaST is going open source: 'For years, SUSE has considered its YaST (Yet Another Setup Tool) software for installing, configuring and managing Linux an advantage over its competitors and forbade them from incorporating it into the products they sold. But with the new plan, to be announced Monday at Novell's Brainshare conference, the company will release YAST under the GPL, sources familiar with the plan said.'" Several years ago, when I first used YaST, I found it to be superior to the rest of the all-in-one administation tools around at the time. It was generally regarded as a great program, save for the licensing. Today, that's no longer a concern.

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  1. Finally... by Seoulstriker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe I can finally install packages myself without having someone else remotely login and set them up for me.

    Give me a break. I'm new to this whole "Linux" thing.

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  2. Gets my thumbs up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anything that uses a pineapple as an icon for "Misc" is alright in my book.

  3. AT YAST! by g-to-the-o-to-the-g · · Score: 2, Funny

    AT YAST! an open source system configuration/management tool for us all!

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  4. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This should cut the number of comments in any Suse story in half.

    1. Re:Great by bsharitt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Red Hat: Doesn't include MP3

      Debian: Outdated

      Gentoo: Takes to long to compile

      SuSE: Now we need a new thing to complain about SuSE.

      How about that Gecko think, I never liked him any way.

    2. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Red Hat: Doesn't include MP3

      You have to remember that Red Hat are big enough to get two complaints. One of them you already hit upon, that they're scrupulously free software only, anything with a hint of the proprietary is kicked out. The other one of course is that they're evil, just like Microsoft, and going to take the whole thing proprietary... or something.

  5. Re:I love open source, BUT by k_head · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not really. In a recent speech the CEO of novell said that they are no longer an operating system company. They make their money selling things on top of an operating system like eDirectory, groupwise, red carpet, ximian connector etc.

    It looks to me like they are keeping their focus on the enterprise which has very little use for YAST but is more then willing to pay for an awsome product like eDirectory or Zenworks.

    I have spent the last two weeks banging my head against Active directory and let me tell you if my CIO said they were switching to Edirectory I would litereally kiss his ass and wash his car.

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  6. Obligatory by Gherald · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot Microsoft ;)

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  7. Re:YasT may be good but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The 80s called, they want their interface back.

  8. Re:YaST - great for newbs but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...the old-fashioned way - using pico :P.

    well no matter what side of the vi/emacs feud you are on, you can always put your differences aside and agree that pico sucks...