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Novell management tool going open source (News.com)Novell management tool going open source (News.com)Posted Mar 19, 2004 18:14 UTC (Fri) by vblum (guest, #1151)Parent article: Novell management tool going open source (News.com) This would be a fantastic event for Linux as a whole. Linux's infrastructure is highly capable, but for average users it absolutely needs a bug-free, all-encompassing configuration interface. Yes, even YaST's usability can be improved, but it goes a long way ... I just wonder what will happen if YaST loses its tight integration with specific versions of the things which it configures ...
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Novell management tool going open source (News.com) Posted Mar 19, 2004 21:32 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] Linux's infrastructure is highly capable, but for average users it absolutely needs a bug-free, all-encompassing configuration interface.I haven't used YAST for a while now (since SuSE 6.1 I think), but my main dissapointment with configuration tools in general is that most of them don't preserve the original file very well. A good tool should have a parser that preserves the original format as much as possible, including whitespace. I absolutely abhor tools (HTML editors come to mind) that strip comments and reformat the file. I like to edit files with a text editor, but if I had a config tool that didn't mess up the files I might use it.
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