On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 15:56:01 -0500, Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net 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.]
ifconfig has been obsolete for a long time (in the sense that ip does more stuff, not in the packaging sense).