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What’s What with openSUSE, ZENworks, YaST

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SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 3, 2007

“In late April, SUSE Project Manager Andreas Jaeger announced on
the openSUSE list that ‘Beginning with the next alpha release of
openSUSE 10.3, alpha 4, ZENworks will be gone. Instead, openSUSE
‘will use the native tools only–Zypper, openSUSE-updater, and
YaST.’

“Now, Bruce Lowry, Novell Inc.’s director of PR, explains in his
blog what this means for Novell’s enterprise SUSE Linux operating
systems.

“Lowry opened by writing that, ‘openSUSE will now be focusing on
native software management using YaST and ‘zypp,’ the
package-management library. As a result, openSUSE 10.3 will not
include the ZENworks Management Daemon…'”

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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