2010/1/8 J. Anthony Limon <[email protected]> > Network Manager is a tricky topic so I'll try to make this as unbiased > as possible. > > WICD offers a solid replacement to NetworkManager while keeping almost > all the features. The only thing I can think of that would keep someone > from switching outright is that Network Manager has built-in VPN > support. After a poll of some sort we could then decide if we also > needed to ship a VPN client by default. > > Also, since the next release is LTS it might make sense to wait to make > the switch as going from NetworkManager to WICD is as easy as apt-get > --purge autremove networkmanager > > - J
Despite the fact that I'm myself using wicd in one of my computers, there is a slight difference between wicd and networkmanager that we may not forget: the quality of the GUI. I've rarely seen an app with a GUI as unwelcoming and badly designed as wicd, even though it has a great backend. I think nm does the job in 99% of the cases, so switching to something that is harder to learn and use is not, in my opinion, a good idea at all for an end-user distribution. -- Steve Dodier Student at École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges Free Software Developer OpenPGP : 1B6B1670
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