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Re: network manager questions
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:10:18 -0700
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:44:31PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> 
> It's RH's right as a distribution to decide to make us choose between
> vi and nm-connection-editor

Well, within limits. Otherwise you have user rebelions, etc. I guess they use Fedora as a thermometer.

> in the same way that it decided to drop
> sysvinit for upstart in v6 and will almost certainly drop upstart for
> systemd in v7. I've never used any of the system-config-* tools ...

Another boring shuffle, yawn. I already start all important daemons and do all
non-trivial network configuration from /etc/rc.local. (Obviously
only for stuff one does not need at boot time).

Would be fun to see them try to deprecate vi and rc.local.

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Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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