[Problem Found] Re: [Feisty] Today's updates (2.6.20-10) killed my nic

[Matthew Flaschen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:42 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> Network-manager seems to be the cause of a lot of complaints on the
>> Ubuntu forums and lists, perhaps it should not be bundled in with the
>> ubuntu-desktop meta package, and instead be an optional install.
> 
> No way, including it in a usable state is one of the main goals of
> Feisty: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/network-roaming
> 
>>  It seems that more & more stuff is being bundled into Feisty... what
>> ever happened to "roll your own"? 
> 
> Nothing happened to it. It is called Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, LFS,
> (etc.), as it always was. "Roll your own" never was even a goal for
> Ubuntu

Ubuntu isn't LFS, but it doesn't have to include *everything* either.
However, I see why network-manager is included (but I use KDE).

Matt Flaschen