YAST stands for Yet Another Setup Utility. It is one of the most powerful installation and configuration program for the SUSE Linux Operating System. Its one of the best known installation programs and particularly known for its userfriendly GUI (the text frontend known as ncurses is also available). It is available under GPL (GNU Public Licence). Currently it is being deployed in United Linux, which is an attempt by the Linux distributors to build a common base distribution. For more information, the following articles provide insight on YAST :
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YAST stands for Yet Another Setup Utility. It is one of the most powerful installation and configuration program for the SUSE Linux Operating System. Its one of the best known installation programs and particularly known for its userfriendly GUI (the text frontend known as ncurses is also available). It is available under GPL (GNU Public Licence). Currently it is being deployed in United Linux, which is an attempt by the Linux distributors to build a common base distribution. For more information, the following articles provide insight on YAST :
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(3) http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5175682.html
(4) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5699