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... > >>> ---- > >>> 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... --- 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
