[Madlug] revisor doesn't work

[Jon Nelson]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Douglas A.
Whitfield<douglasawh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jon Nelson<madlug at jamponi.net> wrote:
>> Give this a look:
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/07/hands-on-linux-appliances-made-easy-with-suse-studio.ars
>
> Unless SUSE has freeware or FOSS management tools, we cannot use SUSE.

openSUSE is entirely free. SLES and SLED are their commercial
products, similar to redhat.

kiwi is entirely free as well.

> If SUSE does have such tools though, then I'd be happy to look at them
> as spacewalk is not nearly as user friendly as Landscape and I
> certainly don't know how to use it yet.

well, openSUSE has autoyast, which is similar to but more powerful
*and* easier to use than kickstart (having used both...)

As far as spacewalk-like management tools, though, I'm not aware of
anything. kiwi iis for building completely installed images onto
bootable CDs, bootable USB, blah blah blah.  autoyast is for
describing an installation using XML (which packages to install, how
to partition, network and user configuration, etc....) and is fairly
malleable, similar to kickstart.

I *think* there is this zen management thinger. Check novell's
website, I suppose.

I've used kiwi to make bootable cds and stuff and it works well.
I've used autoyast for *years* and I've been pleased, but since
installs are getting easier and easier I'm using it less frequently
these days.

I know that fighting kickstart is not something I'm likely to ever to
again, although I get a perverted enjoyment out of watching others
fight with it.


-- 
Jon