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Re: SL6: NIS, AUTOFS incompatible with NetworkManager
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Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>
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Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:55:33 -0400
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On Thursday, June 09, 2011 07:21:29 PM you wrote:
> The curses based, text compatible system-config-network needs
> everything a typical desktop or server needs. It lacks some of the
> foofiness of NetworkManager, but that's both unnecessary and dangerous
> on a stable desktop or server, as we've seen happen repeatedly for new
> installations of RHEL based systems over the last 5 years or so.

Heh.  Why would you want to stick with such an old codebase, Nico?  The TUI system-config-network is deprecated in upstream EL6 and will at some point in time be removed, once the NM config tools are able to duplicate all functionality.  And they are most definitely getting closer.  This is part of what going to EL6 is and will be about.....

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