RE: ownership of devices

[SIMS, Paul, LCTL <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

SuSE themselves are looking at adopting LinuxConf for future releases -
let's hope they don't ditch YaST along the way. I'd like to see YaST evolve
into something like Webmin with a browser interface as well as the menu.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard [SMTP:r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:22 AM
> To: sheflug [at] listbot.com
> Subject: Re: ownership of devices
>
> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Hello
>
> > >While on the subject of RH, a pet annoyance of mine is LinuxConf --
> > >I find it generally breaks stuff which was fine before
> >
> > It sucks. Having arranged my /etc to be how I want it I don't dare
> > to invoke linuxconf in case it trashes it. My experiences of
> > linuxconf with RH5.1 were pretty awful. It may have improved since
> > then but I am happier editing the text files myself.
>
> Linuxconf was one of the things that really put me off Red Hat.
> It's very good when it works but I had a lot of trouble with it so in
> the end I gave up and tried other distributions.
>
> I've since found and used Open Linux which is very nice. Has two
> setup tools which are Lizard and Lisa and looks like windows when
> it's running. If anyone wants a demo CD please say so. I can bring
> two over to the pub on Friday night. Nice AV presentation in windoze
> with a sort of gee wiz American presentation that sort of suggests
> that you should smoke too much or take drugs.
>
> Oh well... must go and open the other tin :-)
>
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
>
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