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NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development
An anonymous reader writes: After ten years of development focused on improving and simplifying Linux networking, NetworkManager 1.0 was released. NetworkManager 1.0 brings many features including an increasingly modernized client library, improved command-line support, a lightweight internal DHCP client, better Bluetooth support, VPN enhancements, WWAN IPv6 support, and other features.
Those are too simple and reliable. For Linux to compete with mainstream operating systems it needs more complexity and more bugs.
Probably, and probably also pulseaudio.
Why isn't it just a thin wrapper on systemd?
Oh, that's cold, man!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Yes and then you just use the commandline to handle failover of network interfa.... eh no.
Well you can use the commandline to automate the connection to preferred wireles.... no?
What about moving between netwo...
Ahh fuck it I'm re-installing NetworkManager. A turd of a system service with a turd of a user interface is better than busting open the command line every time I do something as mind mindbogglingly complicated on my laptop as plugging in a network cable.
It may have its warts, but it does what it says on the box. It simplifies network management in a time where networks are not a single solid stable connection to the host. You wouldn't want it on a server, but you wouldn't want to be without it on pretty much any other use case.