[luau] Where's the Linuxconf* RPM in RH 7.3 Beta?
R. Scott Belford
sctinc at flex.com
Wed Apr 10 02:18:54 PDT 2002
ugggghhhh. I did not know this. Linux without linuxconf. How can this
be?
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 22:21, Wilson wrote:
>> I just loaded Skipjack onto one of my workstations and cant seem to the
>> Linuxconf* RPM. Does it even exist? If not then can I just use one
>> from RH
>> 7.2? Thanks!
>>
>> Wilson
>
> LinuxConf has a penchant towards completely freezing in certain common
> circumstances where config files have been edited manually. It is a
> fairly old tool that parses those config files quite poorly. As a
> result Red Hat completely cut it loose from their next distribution.
>
> Mandrake themselves are moving away from LinuxConf too. That's why they
> worked so hard on their DrakConf tools, that are TOTALLY awesome in
> Mandrake 8.2.
>
> Unfortunately, Red Hat's equivalent config tools are a bit crappy by
> comparison to DrakConf. You have limited config functionality in text
> mode with "setup". (You can't even configure multiple network cards or
> a secondary DNS server. That's crap.)
>
> Red Hat has a bunch of new and somewhat buggy config tools that are GUI
> only, poorly laid out and difficult to find. Try "neat" in X to do more
> advanced network configuration, and "redhat-config-users" for GUI user
> editing.
>
> If you are in KDE, in certain cases when you click buttons in GTK+
> programs like Gimp or redhat-config-users it may appear that nothing
> happened, but actually a new window popped UNDER the current window.
> This is a known KDE window manager bug. =(
>
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