Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Apr 26 05:08:47 UTC 2008
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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