On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:14 -0500, Kiryl Hakhovich wrote:Example NetworkManager - WTF!? when it's running FC3 hardly get's IP address. after you stop it - it's all cool. This kind of little things are all over the place.
IIRC NetworkManager is a 3rd party package. You certainly cannot blame Fedora for problems with other packages.
$ rpm -qip NetworkManager-0.3.3-1.cvs20050112.1.fc3.i386.rpm
Name : NetworkManager Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 0.3.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 1.cvs20050112.1.fc3 Build Date: Wed 12 Jan 2005 21:47:31 GMT
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: NetworkManager-0.3.3-1.cvs20050112.1.fc3.src.rpm
Size : 339077 License: GPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 12 Jan 2005 21:52:28 GMT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/
Summary : Network link manager and user applications
Description :
NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for usage on servers. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using DHCP, NetworkManager is _intended_ to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.
NetworkManager is part of Fedora Core and appears to be developed by a Red Hat engineer.
Coming back to the OP's comments, IMHO FC3 is the best Linux distro I have ever used in terms of functionality and lack of problems. I am very happy with it and certainly find it better than either FC1 or FC2.
Paul.
