Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

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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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