[luau] Where's the Linuxconf* RPM in RH 7.3 Beta?

[R. Scott Belford]

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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