Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:07 -0500
Mark Haney wrote:
If I get one that makes sense, then I might shut up
about this, otherwise, to me NM is just re-inventing the wheel to no
purpose.
It isn't merely reinventing the wheel, it is replacing the wheel with
some utterly incompatible object that sometimes serves a wheel-like
function while not actually working with anything that previously
used wheels without extensive mods to all the former users of wheels.
And, while, they were at it, they also provide absolutely no
documentation about how to use the new wheel-like functionality
then claim anyone who can't get it to work is just a whiner.
I liked this analogy but I feel that Network Manager is just a different
type of wheel than a re-invention. It is like comparing a tire for a
motorbike to that of a truck. They both roll on the road but do it in
different ways.
I have installed F10 on two machines so far. In one case, NM is being
used as the machine won't be on a network for 99.9% of the time. The
other machine is on a full time network and requires full network access
before the login procedure. On this machine, I turned off Network
Manager and use the normal network services. It took about 30 seconds.
On a F7 laptop, Network Manager works great. Can go from wired fixed IP
address to wireless DHCP address by unplugging the ethernet cable. It
is just that easy.
The only problem that I have run into regarding networking is ethernet
devices not being activated.
So far I find F10 to be be better than F8 on the same machine other than
sound but that is another subject. :)
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Robin Laing
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