Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> 
> >PS: ip is the new way of doing things, and ifconfig is considered
> >deprecated, at least as far as Linux is concerned.
> 
> Why?
> 
> What possessed them to create yet another command which doesn't quite do 
> what I want yet does it in an incompatible way.

I have no idea, but this has been the case since the 2.4 kernel. I don't
expect ifconfig and friends to be going anywhere anytime soon, though.

And to answer Stewart's comment: RMS wants it called GNU/Linx, and I
think I know why: It says ``Not UNIX'' right in the name. He may have a
good point.


-john

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