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.

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YasT may be good but

[Agent Orange]

I just can't stand the SuSE mentality - it annoys the shit out of me, in the same way that windows and OSX annoy the shit out of me - it gets in my way and tries to hold my hand. Just leave me the hell alone! If I want to set up a bazillion bloody environment varibles etc, I'll fucking-well do it myself!

Global configurations should be minimalist. If you want a special protect-me-from-the-nasty-computer config, fine. But I don't, so piss off and leave me alone.

SuSE and Yast have done some great stuff in the way of installed, and opening up is a Good Thing(tm). But I'll never enjoy using suse unless they change their mentality...

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