On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:55:40 +0100 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl Goetz schreef: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:31:03 -0900 > > aurélien <[email protected]> wrote: > >> About wicd, for the free part i can test on my side (rj45 > >> connexion). > > > > This being a yeeloong, I can only assume wifi will be its most used > > connection - thats the point of a system this size. > > If wicd will replace network-manager, I assume it will do so on all > architectures. Then it can't hurt to also test a cable connection on > i386, as Aurélien did. Fair point. > >> The most useful comparaison i can make on it between network > >> manager is :: no way are already existing/writing to install a vpn > >> connexion. > >> > >> On network-manager, you have a pre-installed solution to follow to > >> install it. > > > > This made no sense to me :/ > > I assume this means that network-manager lets you set up a VPN > connection, but that wicd doesn't have that feature. ah, ok, that makes sense. > I can add that I've been running wicd for some days now on my > Yeeloong in a place with generally bad wifi connectivity and I think > it's doing pretty good. I don't have any concrete measurements (apart > from: I don't really notice it's there and I don't swear at it), but > my feeling is that it performs as good (possibly better) as the > network-manager I had installed from config.fsf.org. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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