System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue Mar 24 17:10:43 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 13:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> > * system-config-netboot
> >   - very outdated
> >   - replacements k12linux, cobbler
> 
> Yes, this needs to die.
> 
> > * system-config-display
> >   - xrandr should be used for resolution/dualhead configuration, Gnome & KDE 
> > have 
> >     own xrandr based display configuration tool
> >   - generates xorg.conf - it's not needed anymore (only if someone needs 
> >     more expert configuration)  
> 
> This is already not in the default install.

s-c-d is really only useful for multihead across multiple GPUs.  If that
_worked_ in X at the moment.

xorg.conf is still useful (and recommended) for configuring the initial
login screen.

- ajax
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