Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 00:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Craig White wrote:
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...
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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.
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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...


I guess I gave up looking for it after only a few years...
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the impatience of youth...

As someone who used cipe way back when, I found it rather trivial to
build openvpn from source and install it so I wasn't much put out
anyway. Then of course, simultaneous with 2.6 kernels, we got openswan
support.

Sometimes I think you just bitch for the sake of bitching.

Craig

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