Mehul Ved wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, scraposcrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
You guys keep telling me all that, but for a non-tech user, both are same. both allow me to see a list of software like in Windows XP and then chose what we want to add or remove. So i dont really care whether it is a system config or a package manager, it allows me to add and remove software.
Ofcourse, it has been 6 years since i used suse, so i dont necessarily remember what else it can do. i dont remember having used it for any system config work.
Your words will give wrong impression to new suse users that yum can do all the tasks that yast does. Which is not true. So, even for non-tech user it doesn't hold true. Yum + system-config set of tools can be said to be equivalent to yast.
ok. i stand corrected. // bows to the gurus // :-)
Still, what i was trying to say i guess is that everything that yast does in GUI mode is also available in Fedora in GUI mode, though adding software and changing config needs to different modules to be activated. considering we rarely do both at the same time and for the same thing, it should not make any difference to a non-tech user like me. When Suse was launched with Yast, that was the thing that attracted people the most - GUI tool to take care of config and software. RedHat did not have it. Now Fedora has the same thing, so its not an USP / competition killer any more.
In terms of community support, more people use fedora, so its easier to get help (again, my personal experiance) by asking people locally. Since the layout of directories is different between fedora / RH and Suse, people used to fedora have to fumble around to find the correct commands in Suse.
Regards Saswata