On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 21:17 +0800, Alick Zhao wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:56:01 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > To make ifconfig obsolete is really weird. It sounds to me that > > developers of Fedora have to much time on their hands. Next I expect > > they will change the name of vi. Oh, I forgot it is now vim. Where is Ed > > Joy when we need him? [He was the creator of vi, in the very beginning.] > > AFAIK ifconfig is deprecated in favor of iproute2, which seems not > specific to Fedora. See also the link below[1]. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifconfig#Current_status > > -- > alick > Fedora 16 (Verne) user > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Alick Again I am confused. ifconfig is an executable. iproute2 is a directory containing non-executables. How then does iproute2 replace ifconfig? -- ======================================================================= A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -- Barry Goldwater ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
