Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Les Mikesell]

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...
>>> ----
>>> 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...


I guess I gave up looking for it after only a few years...

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   Les Mikesell
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