Click the Hardware information icon to see your full list of detected hardware.
Manages system configuration??”Like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE stores much of
the information it uses to configure services at boot time in files in the /etc/sysconfig
directory. The information in those files is in the form VARIABLE="VALUE".
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FIGURE 10-1
Configure common Linux features using the YaST utility.
FIGURE 10-2
Use the arrow and Tab keys to navigate YaST in text mode.
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Under the YaST System icon, you can select the sysconfig Editor, which lets you select
each file and then view and possibly change each variable so that you don??™t have to guess
what variables are available for each configuration. For more advanced system administrators,
this is a great way to fine-tune the startup services for your system.
SUSE also includes a System Configuration Profile Management (SCPM) applet, which
lets you store and manage a collection of system settings so it can be used again later.
Configures network devices??”YaST detects your dial-up modem, Ethernet card, DSL
modem, or ISDN hardware, and gives you the opportunity to configure each piece of
hardware. SUSE also does a much better job than most distributions at getting Winmodems
working in Linux, which is particularly useful for using dial-up features on laptops that
have cheap, built-in modems.
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