Newbie: Yast vs Yast2

[Bill Unger]

I have been running Suse v9 for a few weeks now and while I am very
impressed with its usability and each of configuration, I am a bit confused
why there is a Yast and Yast2... can anyone shed some light on this for
me?

[Chris Cox]

Post by Bill Unger
I have been running Suse v9 for a few weeks now and while I am very
impressed with its usability and each of configuration, I am a bit confused
why there is a Yast and Yast2... can anyone shed some light on this for
me?

SuSE's original program was YaST (version 1 if you will).
YaST2 brought a raster GUI (and text as well) rather than
just the text based i/f on found in YaST1. But YaST2 stunk
compared to YaST1 (it simply wasn't feature complete). Now
that YaST2 has matured and YaST1 has been officially dropped,
I guess both command names have stuck around for compatibility
sake.

[houghi]

Post by Chris Cox
SuSE's original program was YaST (version 1 if you will).
YaST2 brought a raster GUI (and text as well) rather than
just the text based i/f on found in YaST1. But YaST2 stunk
compared to YaST1 (it simply wasn't feature complete). Now
that YaST2 has matured and YaST1 has been officially dropped,
I guess both command names have stuck around for compatibility
sake.

For a while there was even a symlink with the name 'zast', or the like, so
that if you had a erman keyboard and did not yet have it set, you still
would be able to run yast without looking for the correct key.

[Martin Blume]

"Bill Unger" schrieb

Post by Bill Unger
I have been running Suse v9 for a few weeks now and while I
am very impressed with its usability and each of
configuration, I am a bit confused why there is a Yast and
Yast2... can anyone shed some light on this for me?

YaST is the console tool (no graphics), yast2 works under x.

HTH
Martin

[houghi]

Post by Martin Blume
"Bill Unger" schrieb

Post by Bill Unger
I have been running Suse v9 for a few weeks now and while I
am very impressed with its usability and each of
configuration, I am a bit confused why there is a Yast and
Yast2... can anyone shed some light on this for me?

YaST is the console tool (no graphics), yast2 works under x.

No, it is not:
***@penne : l /sbin/yast
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2004-05-14 14:09 /sbin/yast -> yast2*

[Martin Blume]

"houghi" schrieb

Post by houghi

Post by Martin Blume
YaST is the console tool (no graphics),
yast2 works under x.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2004-05-14 14:09
/sbin/yast -> yast2*

You're right.

Martin

[Kevin Nathan]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 21:12:15 +0200

Post by Martin Blume
You're right.

So were you. If you run 'yast' in a terminal window, you will get the
ncurses version, if you run 'yast2' you will get the GUI version . . .
:-)