Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

> On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned:
>  
>
> > Somehow I thought the Red Hat tools were working spectacularly well in
> > Knoppix which most see as a debian derivitive.
> >    
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Knoppix supports nearly the
> number of architectures that Debian does.
>
>  


It doesn't. But
a) RHL supports IA32, IA64, AMD-64, IBM iSeries, pSeries and zSeries,and 
YDL is basically RHL ported to Powemacs.
b) The other (unsupported) platforms don't have anything like the array 
of third-party hardware found on PC-type platforms.
c) It also used to support Alphas and Sparcs. I'm running RHL 6.2 on a 
lunchbox. Well, I installed it:-)

The hardware detection in RHL is done by Kudzu

It's not debian-complete by any means, but those architectures not 
covered by Kudzu must surely  be easier than those already done.

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Cheers
John

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