Overall, I see this as a good move. YaST was dated and sluggish. I hated having to use it. Yes, it will make SuSE feel different now, but sometimes change is good.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that we didn’t get any alternative in return. Right?
Yeah, they’ve been apparently working on its replacement for quite some time, so the “news” of its retirement actually comes because of the discovery of its replacement and the chatter around it. The linked article isn’t an official announcement of YaST’s death, it’s just speculation. But it’s very credible speculation.
they’ve been apparently working on its replacement for quite some time, so the “news” of its retirement actually comes because of the discovery of its replacement and the chatter around it.
Are you referring to the combination of Agama, Ansible and Cockpit?
Yes, according to the article, anyway. That seems to be the speculation at the moment.
With Liberty Linux and OpenELA, a key SuSE strategy is supporting customers that are using competing Linux distros.
Moving to more standard tooling like Ansible and Cockpit positions them to support these mixed environments better. It also makes it easier to turn a RHEL customer that adopts Liberty Linux for support into a pure SLE customer later on.
Overall, it seems like a reasonable strategy. I know YaST has fans but it does not seem like many people were ditching other distros for the chance to use it. The engineering resources spent on YaST may be more productively used elsewhere.
I always like(ed) the name.
:((But also never had any problems. Prob not the fastest tho.)
