Thread: Tasma helps you configure

At first glance, it looks like the Pardus team has re-branded KControl to Tasma. However, unlike KControl, the home screen explains the purpose of this tool. The broad categories on the left panel are the same like KControl, and so are the modules for these individual sections.

Oh, wait a second, a lot of third-party modules have also been integrated into it, and there're more modules to be accessed using Settings Show Extra Modules. These essentially make it similar to the Mandriva Control Centre or SuSE's YAST.



One very cool module I chanced upon here is the History Manager. It lets you take snapshots of the system and roll back to a previous system state if something goes wrong. Although I didn't get a chance to break the system and then try this out, my understanding of this tool is that, besides giving you the ability to take snapshots of the system state manually, it also keeps a log of package installs and removals as per their date and time, and thus essentially gives you the privileges of rolling back to a previous state.

Other modules include: user configuration, firewall set up, network manager, desktop sharing, display manager, TV card configuration, service manager, package manager etc.