Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 23:56 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Craig White wrote:


But that is the problem. The folks with proprietary want to limit your
use to only the systems they have chosen to support, thus you can end up
with instruments or software that you have purchased that will not run
when the OS changes.
That's hardly unique to proprietary software. I once relied heavily on
CIPE as a VPN, but FC2 just dumped it with no replacement. Yes, I could
have kept all the broken pieces of the source code...
----
wasn't the cipe code dropped from the 2.6 kernel?


It was never part of the kernel - just a victim of the ever-changing
Linux interfaces. There were eventually patches to fix it, but fedora
never bothered to pick them up or even add openvpn which would have been
a usable replacement.
----
been so long that I have forgotten the reason but I know that it was
simultaneous to migration to 2.6 kernel that occurred with FC2.

anyway...openvpn is indeed available...

# yum install openvpn knetworkmanager-openvpn
Loading "priorities" plugin
396 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package openvpn.i386 0:2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package knetworkmanager-openvpn.i386 0:0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 set
to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: knetworkmanager = 0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 for
package: knetworkmanager-openvpn
--> Running transaction check
---> Package knetworkmanager.i386 0:0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 set to be
updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository
Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
knetworkmanager-openvpn i386 0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 updates
34 k
Installing for dependencies:
knetworkmanager i386 0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 updates
350 k
openvpn i386 2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7 fedora
356 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 3 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 740 k
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

Craig

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