Project Stick In The Mud :-)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 07:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0500
> "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here, I think a compromise is necessary. If you're running a server, I
> > think you're competent enough to turn of NetworkManager (it was really
> > crappy a few versions ago). While I think there needs to be away to
> > have a network connection on boot, that seems, even to me, to be low
> > priority.
> 
> But why am I being called on to be the one who needs additional
> competence? Why can't NetworkManager just say, "Oh look, this machine
> has a static IP, let's just start networking exactly the same way
> it always started". As long as people have to intervene to fix things
> after an improvement, I don't consider it an improvement.
> 

This is how it's supposed to work in F9.  If it's not, then there's a
bug somewhere.

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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