unitedlinux news conference

[Jason Joines]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:09:38PM -0400, dep wrote:
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>>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
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>
>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.
>
>Bill
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I believe what does the undoing is SuSEconfig, instead of YaST2.  After 
installing or changing something with YaST2, it runs SuSEconfig or you 
can run it yourself.  You can also disable it and you won't have to 
worry about it messing with your changes.

Jason Joines
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