Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 23:18:00 -0500,
  John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:
> 
> And of course Network-Manager isn't optional anymore.  Oh no, you can't

You can still run the network service. You use chkconfig to turn it on.
If you don't need wireless, turning off NetworkManager doesn't seem to
be a problem, but it's also possible to run both at the same time.