Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Ralf Mardorf]

PS: Since you mentioned Network Manager, I'm using scripts to either connect by PPPoE or DHCP to the Internet. I don't have other needs regarding networks. What is wrong with Network Manager, to provide user-friendly network access? You are not forced to use Network manager, you could use other tools and/or use command line by launching scripts during startup, as I do. In some regards Ubuntu is less expert-friendly as other distros might be, but we could chose the distro that fit best to our needs.