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Re: network-manager rant



On Do, 13 Jan 2011, Pietro Abate wrote:
> > My workaround was to purge network-manager and I'm planning to fix this by
> > creating a package which Conflicts: network-manager. Maybe you could provide
> > this kind of package by default :)
> 
> I'm a very happy user of wicd. It works well to wireless network, it's

Agreed, I *loved* wicd, until I had to connect/tether my iPhone as modem
to the laptop, for this I didn't find a decent solution with wicd, and
with n-m and the bluetooth manager it was a piece of cake ... so yes,
as long as you don't need it, I recommend wicd, too.

Best wishes

Norbert
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