On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:43:08PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
I was however sad to see old dependable friends like ifconfig and route being deprecated last year.
I had the same initial response to that. But spending an evening reading the ip manpage and doing a lot of 'exercises' using it changed that, now I can type ip commands as fluently as I could do before using ifconfig and route. The most important 'mental adjustmemt' I needed to make was getting used to the idea that a single interface can have many IP adresses. It's probably irrelevant to most users, but still just a fact.
Sad to see rc.conf more or less being deprecated too.
Yes, it was very convenient to have almost all essential configuration available in a single file. And it's sad that this is being abandoned not because that brings any benefit to the user but because 'upstream has decided'.
Oh well, let's hope the future is so bright that we gotta wear shades :)
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