usability: unplugged ethernet cable on an office desktop

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 07:31 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 07:04 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> > man, 14 08 2006 kl. 20:23 -0400, skrev Bill Nottingham:
> > 
> > > Use NetworkManager. (Yes, I'm a broken record here.)
> > > 
> > > Bill
> > 
> > Pretty much Bill, so pray tell us when exactly will NM be ready for
> > default deployment in Fedora like say OpenSuSE/SLED does. Untill that
> 
> SUSE doesn't have that many custom patches for NetworkManager, they
> pretty much ship a stock version.  So the base functionality isn't the

This should read "So the base functionality _is_ the same".

> same.  What they have chosen to do is just flip the switch, turn it on
> by default, and people then live with it or turn it off.
> 
> They just flipped the switch, and seem to be doing fine so far. [1]
> 
> Dan
> 
> [1] That doesn't mean it would be fine for us, of course.  But it's a
> data point.
> 
> > glorious day these concerns are perfectly valid and a perfect indicator
> > as to just how much we need a fully functional NM implementation
> > suitable for the core Fedora use cases.
> > 
> > - David Nielsen
> > 
>