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