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YaST to Become Open Source

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.

15 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY BLOODY ANUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. I FUCK GAY SHEEP ALL NIGHT (AND DAY) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    help plz

  3. Re:Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fascism != Communism!

  4. Re:Finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RTFM??

    Rape The Fat Monkey??
    Roast The Furry Mule??
    Rewind The Film Moron??
    Release The Funky Mutants??
    Reload The Flash Movie??

  5. Re:Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear MODs,

    A post that comments on the post's parent is not OFFTOPIC!! TROLL, FLAMEBAIT, yes. OFFTOPIC, no!

  6. SHUT THE FUCK UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    harpo

  7. Re:U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The White race will not survive

    This may happen, it may not. One things for certain: whitey sure left a good legacy: Civilization, The Renaissance, science, computers, among others.

  8. Re:U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn it! I'm moving to Canada.

  9. one more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Howard Dean: YeeeeeeeeeAASSSST!!

  10. Re:Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes it is, if the previous post was offtopic

    what you're basically saying is that if you fuck a gay guy in the ass, it doesn't make you gay, because you were fucking...

  11. completely off subject -1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This guy wants to run up his brother's numbers. He's a nice guy. Should we shashdot his brother's band in Sweden? What follows is what he sent out:

    To: microsaft_elle@yahoogroups.com
    From: "Fredrik Astrom" Add to Address Book
    Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:30:41 -0000
    Subject: [microsaft_elle] Resurfacing @Microsaft.com

    My Groups | microsaft_elle Main Page

    So far everything is calm over here. ...which is a very good thing.

    I think I'll continue with my galleries
    but will be relocating the main url somewhere else.
    Until then: http://www.celeb-center.com/index2.html

    ---

    The experiment...
    My brother has a grunge band in Sweden.
    I would love it if you would vote "10" for him on this page.

    http://www.pdol.se/demotek_visa.php?id=53

    It would be fun to send his stats to the skies.
    Please help me out.
    ---

  12. Re:U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't wait!!

    Then I can whine about being a minority and that I should be admitted to those expensive colleges I didn't study hard enough to get into!

    Plus if a cop pulls me over I can cry that it was because I am a minority (nothing to do with the beer cans flying out the window)

    This is gonna be sweeeet!

  13. Re:U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Once america is nothing but mexicans and blacks it will just turn to shit.

    China and India will be the new world leaders.

    Oh well the whole world power thing was cool while it lasted, had a good run, over century, not too bad...

  14. Re:Finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello! I'm selling BRAND NEW ALIENWARE Area-51m Extreme Laptops (3.2 GHZ - Built In Wireless- 60 GB HDD - DVD/RW) $400 USD - Contact: streamsale_electronics@mail333.com

  15. Ugly Niggers ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dunno this place has gone downhill. Even the trolls are boring.

    Slak rul3z!! User hostile ... the only way,less you want a blow job from yast. Suck me into a new OS baby. I'll just lie here.

    Damn I'm as lame as anyone here, hell lamer. Oh well back to playing Doom. Gotta get ready.

    Heh. I fire up the midnight commander and slide through it to a wad, hit enter and up comes zdoom wit da wad running. F9, go to Command down to "edit extension file", ah yes ... user hostile, well a little bit anyway.

    CC