Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mi, 2016-10-05 at 14:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
> 
i must say that in many aspects i find nmcli more powerfull than
ifconfig for scripting ... 

it changed a lot within the last years ... 

one big disadvantage is still that it requires a lot of dependencies ip
or ifconfig do not require ... but disk space is cheap in most cases
... 

ciao
	oli
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