On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a > > version for Debian. > > I think you missed April Fools Day by a few months. > > I can't see anything that YaST can do that $EDITOR and discover doesn't > do better. Besides, we've already tried something similar before. Go > search for experiences with Red Hat's system configurator ported to > Debian around the bo and hamm dynasties. Distro-specific tools just > don't work outside that distro. And when they are, their usefulness is > often distroyed, as was the case with Red Hat's rpm.
For those using GNOME, there is the gnome-system-tools package, which is proposed for inclusion in the gnome-2.8 release (previously available as a separate install). I haven't tried it, so don't know if it suffers from the same problems as YAST when editing config files. I don't believe it addresses hardware discovery. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
