Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Les Mikesell]

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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   Les Mikesell
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