Subject: Re: Byte.com collates upcoming Linux changes
From: James Gibson (twistedhammer@subdimension.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 19:55:18 AKST
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Justin Dieters wrote:
> This is all great, except SuSE dumping yast1.. I ssh into my server
> (SuSE 7.3) and use the text-based yast for stuff such as installing
> packages from the CD and setting up network stuff. Now I have to
> install X and all the related mumbo-jumbo just to run my server (or,
> would have to, if I planned to upgrade that particular machine)
Actually, this is not a problem because Yast2 is cute; the UI is modular
(at least since SuSE 7.3 and I believe as far back as 7.1..). It actually
has a curses based interface that it uses if the X environment is not
available, which literally allows you to do everything that you can do
with the X-gui. You should be able to try it on any machine you have
loaded.. just switch to a non-xdm mode and type 'yast2' from the console.
James Gibson
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