Does YAST work with Fedora?

Unforgiven79 · 01-19-2007, 06:26 AM

Hi!

I like Fedora, and would like to install FC6 on my laptop.

Though, what I would really miss from SuSE is YAST.
Has anybody tried to install it with a Fedora distro?

IMO, it should be theoretically possible to have YAST work, maybe with other needed packages, but it should be...

hob · 01-19-2007, 12:29 PM

YAST is developed specifically for SUSE, and AFIAK it's never been ported to any other system. Webmin provides very flexible and comprehensive admin tool, and supports all of the major distributions and UNIX-like OSes. The only issue with Webmin is security - don't allow external access to it, as it has had more than one security issue in the past.

teckk · 01-21-2007, 02:17 PM

Fedora comes with Yum to install software and resolve dependencies. When you get your repo's configured Yum works great. If you are using KDE it has 10's of configuration apps.

Or you can learn ifconfig, route, xorgconfig, hdparm, samba conf, etc. then you will be able to configure any linux box regardless of the flavor.

Hitboxx · 01-21-2007, 04:58 PM

Additionally to yum, you can install graphical front-ends to it, like Kyum, Yumex etc. And the Smart-package-manager is also available, as is apt-get and Synaptic.

glussier · 01-22-2007, 11:27 PM

many of the yast configuration tools are also available in Fedora, however they are not centralized into a control panel like in Suse's yast.

all of these tools are available thru the Fedora's system and admin menus.

You can also access these configuration tools via the command line:

system-config-authentication
system-config-date
system-config-display
system-config-keyboard
system-config-language
system-config-lvm
system-config-network
system-config-network-cmd
system-config-printer
system-config-rootpassword
system-config-samba
system-config-securitylevel
system-config-services
system-config-soundcard
system-config-time
system-config-users