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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
