[Sugar-devel] life w/o NM

[pgf at laptop.org]

aleksey wrote:
 > as far as I can understand, NM is required to monitor/set net
 > devices/self IPs.  Is it necessary to use it in case of common
 > desktop e.g. w/o wireless and with stable ethernet connection? 

no, certainly not.  unix systems with ethernet have existed far
longer than network manager.  (NM isn't _required_ for the
wireless case, either.)  but is it worth _not_ using network
manager for that one, mostly exceptional, case?  probably not. 
the trick is making sure network manager works correctly for that
case.

paul
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