[Cialug] Fedora 10 Networking

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:12 AM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
> 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.

Boy, it sure seems like NetworkManager has gotten a bad rep that won't
go away.  Sure early versions had bugs (what doesn't?) and people were
expecting it to be the all-singing all-dancing Microsoft-ish network
configuration/management tool from day 1.  The 0.7 versions available
in Fedora 10+ (maybe 9 has it as an update too) will do 99.9% of what
I need on desktop and/or laptop.  In theory it's usable on servers but
I'd rather save the memory and RHEL/CentOS has an older version.  I'm
not an Ubuntu user so I don't know how well integrated it is there or
how current they are keeping.

-- 
Jeff Ollie