On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:43:08PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > I was however sad to see old dependable friends like ifconfig and route > being deprecated last year. I had the same initial response to that. But spending an evening reading the ip manpage and doing a lot of 'exercises' using it changed that, now I can type ip commands as fluently as I could do before using ifconfig and route. The most important 'mental adjustmemt' I needed to make was getting used to the idea that a single interface can have many IP adresses. It's probably irrelevant to most users, but still just a fact. > Sad to see rc.conf more or less being deprecated too. Yes, it was very convenient to have almost all essential configuration available in a single file. And it's sad that this is being abandoned not because that brings any benefit to the user but because 'upstream has decided'. > Oh well, let's hope the future is so bright that we gotta wear shades :) Che serà serà... Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
