On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Dan Williams wrote: > Right; NM 0.7 and later is definitely _not_ targetted at a "very narrow > niche". It's targeted at hopefully >= 75% of the use-cases of Fedora. > > Perhaps this weekend (unless I'm still fixing bugs with NM in general) > I'll integrate the work Soren did for a system config service which will > allow connections to be brought up before you log in. That's the only > real blocker to using NM in a GUI-less server-type environment if you > like. Other than that, most of the bits for static IP support are in > (applet bits to follow), the options to lock things like 802.3 duplex, > speed, and other stuff are in-progress by Tambet, and most of the > wireless options work. > > By the holidays, I expect we can flip NM on by default in Rawhide, even > if it's not default in F8. > A general comment re. NM. It did seem odd the way such a large change was made so late in the F8 development cycle, with no real discussion I could see (please do point me to such a discussion if there was one). For quite a long time it was unusable for lots of people and still seems a little flaky. Was it a case of the rewrite taking longer than planned? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
