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openSUSE 11.1 YaST preview - What’s the next step?

With the latest builds of YaST, I would have to say it is far from “Yet another Setup Tool”. I consider it “The ultimate Setup Tool”. That’s right, I think YaST which ships with openSUSE is the most complete, and comprehensive configuration / management tool. Furthermore in openSUSE 11.1 YaST is being shipped with many enhancemnts in the printer, software repositories, partitioner and more.

In this writing I’ll just show you some screenshots of the newly redesigned yast module gui’s. However later I will show more detail on how to use several of them including the newly revamped printer, partitioner one etc.

So lets start off with the printer module.

Software Repository module

Partitioner module

So there you have some quick previews of the revamped modules. Now.. onto the real wonder.. that being “What’s Next?”.

I think YaST as a standard setup tool across multiple distributions would be the “right step” for the normal home user. To put it in Windows terms, it’s like Control Panel on crack. Zonker talks about splitting YaST from openSUSE for it to be forked to other distributions in this posting of his.

Sorry this isn’t a more in depth review of the individual modules, like I said earlier, that’ll come later (as long as time permits).

So here’s a poll.. just wondering if you think YaST should be ported or not:

Tags: opensuse, review, yast