[Cialug] Fedora 10 Networking

[David Champion]

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> The old-style network configuration is handled by the "initscripts"
> package.  Don't remove that though - you'll have more problems that
> just networking :).
>
>   
[WARNING: slightly off-topic ranting and fist shaking ahead...]
I was reading the blog about the upcoming Mandriva 2009.1 (Spring) 
release... one change that's coming (not sure if it will be in this 
version or the 2010 release) is migrating off the old initscripts to the 
newer stuff RH is using, because initscripts is (are?) not going to be 
maintained. I'm dreading that change...

One of the main reasons I started using Mandriva (Mandrake at the time) 
was because they did a good job of un-RedHatting-up the broken stuff, in 
particular networking scripts in RH that had the same bug from like 2.x, 
I think they finally fixed it in 6.2, about 4 years later. That... and 
the lack of supported packages in RH, and switching to newer / better 
versions of stuff much quicker.

-dc