On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 14:15 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:33:38 -0800 > Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > > If NM with its doppleganger ModemManager isn't as good as "network", > > why is it in Fedora? > > My best guess is because a bunch of guys who spend all their time > on laptops hopping from one Starbucks to another decided to > write a completely different network management system from scratch > that would work for wireless and nothing else, then because it > was new and shiny it just had to replace network even though > it couldn't do anything but wireless. > > Personally, I would much rather they had fixed network's > wireless capabilities instead of a complete rewrite (because > years later, the rewrite still can't do everything network > does). Please refrain from this kind of ridiculous speculation. It does no credit to the list or to the project. The design goals of NetworkManager are _on the project's front page_: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ . This is not difficult to discover. This kind of bad faith faux-pontification is extremely rude to the developers and doesn't take us anywhere productive. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
