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The GNOME NetworkManager AppletThe GNOME NetworkManager AppletPosted Jan 26, 2006 7:51 UTC (Thu) by jayavarman (subscriber, #19600)Parent article: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet
NM rocks! :-)
More seriously though, it's odd you found about NM in an ubuntu box instead of a fedora one (from your articles I deduce you're mostly a fedora user?) since NM is mostly developed by Red Hat people and has been working on fedora for quite some time.
Anyway, NM is on a completly different league than the GNOME networking tools, since NM is a dbus daemon (and a pretty GUI applet) which is supposed to manage all your network connectivity. Actually the plan AFAIK is for NM to be _the_ networking configuration tool (and API) on GNU/Linux systems including PPP conections and VPNs. It is an important infrastructure block that is needed yesterday. Eventually (when it is robust enough) I guess it might even be used on servers (w00t? an unix server with point-and-clik networking configuration, the windows crowd will flock onto linux :-).
A new 0.6 version I guess is near release and it will have initial support for WPA encrypted wifi networks, yay!
Yeah, this post is mostly hype but this is a project that is really worth it. Kudos to all the NM contributors!
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The GNOME NetworkManager Applet Posted Jan 27, 2006 17:02 UTC (Fri) by cook (subscriber, #4) [Link] I'm sure NetworkManager can work on Fedora, my initial attempt atworking with the D-Link pci card was on an FC4 system. The card was not detected by kudzu on reboot. I stuck the card into a Ubuntu system and it came the first time. I'm rapidly becoming a convert to Ubuntu, it seems to be a "kinder gentler" entry into the world of Debian. Synaptic is a good thing.
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