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Because YaST offers both graphical (QT) and text-based (ncurses) interfaces, you can use YaST as
a configuration tool from the desktop or the shell. To start YaST from the desktop, click the SUSE
button on the desktop panel and select System???YaST. Figure 10-1 shows what the graphical version
of the YaST utility looks like.
Launching the YaST utility actually involves running the /sbin/yast2 command. When you
run /sbin/yast2, YaST starts in graphical mode by default. (An alternative is to run kdesu
/sbin/yast from a Terminal window, which starts YaST in text mode.) Figure 10-2 shows what
YaST looks like when started in text mode from a Terminal window.
YaST offers you some intuitive tools for configuring your system and comes preconfigured so you
start with a nice set of defaults. YaST also does a good job detecting your hardware, finding partitions,
and the like, so a new user can often just accept the settings YaST chooses. Here are some
examples of what YaST does for you:
Detects hardware??”You don??™t have to check through /etc configuration files or run
lsmod, lspci, or hwinfo to see the drivers for your hardware or how your hardware
has been configured in SUSE. From the Hardware section, you can select icons representing
your CD drives, graphics cards, printers, joysticks, scanners, sound cards, and mice.
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