On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:25:01PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> If you're using a single ethernet adapter, statically
configured,
> without a desktop, and only running say httpd and samba, then no, you
> probably don't want to use NM. You certainly _could_ if you wanted to.
No, we probably *do* want people using NetworkManager here because
maintaining two entirely orthogonal network stacks is somewhat insane
and makes the rest of the system harder to manage.
Right, now *this* one I see as a strong selling point -- but it's selling
more to the system developers than to sysadmins (and, presumably, enterprise
Linux customers, if that's on anyone's mind...).
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