unitedlinux news conference

[Federico Voges]

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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:54:16 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:09:38PM -0400, dep wrote:
>>just finished participating in the ul news conference. many 
>>interesting developments, not the least being that ransom love is 
>>out. i wrote it up here:
>>
>>http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=229
>
>The part about the installation/management being done via YAST may well be
>enough to keep me from going with UnitedLinux.  YAST has been the main
>reason we haven't done anything serious with SuSE.  I don't like the idea
>of the monolithic configuration that makes it difficult for the
>knowledgeable admin to make changes without fear of having them undone the
>next time somebody runs YAST.
>

Besides that, I really like Lizard because you can start the install,
set all the configuration options and leave the installation running.
When you came back, you have the system installed. You don't have to
stay arround answering questions every three install steps (and wait
for reboots, etc).

What I'd really like is and unatended install option that is well
documenten and easy to setup. Lizard unatended install is almost
imposible to understand and a pain to setup. 

I must confest that RedHat's kickstart is good (at least is easy to
understand and configure). The big problem is that the gui has about 50
dependencies. The first time I used it I installed it on a minimal
system and ended up with allmost a full install ;)


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