Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Actually, I feel s-c-network should be revived and NetworkManager be
> made strictly optional.
I'd actually have to disagree. I *love* NM on my Asus (netbook).
Congratulations.
For me,
- NM doesn't work on any machine w/ WLAN
- NM is just bloated ballast on machines w/o WLAN
It's
great for laptops (or other computers that tend to move around and need
to deal with "foreign" networks,
Seemingly it's sufficiently
functional for some people in such
situation. I don't have such demands.
especially wireless networks), and it's
"okay" for desktops.
Yes, it works "sufficiently" on my
desktops, but ... at which price?
... Instability caused by silly "dark magic",
... no cli
... no network profiles
... bloat
(For one, it handles Verizon CDMA modems out of the
box, much better even that on Windoze, which is why I'd much
rather use
NM when dealing with one of those.) However, it's not yet up-to-snuff
(and possibly inferior) for servers or other "complicated" network
setups, and it's maybe at "break even" for static setups.
My network
isn't compliated (static IPs, static topologic, yp based
autofs, DHCP).
It's just that NM can't handle it properly.
Ralf