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?