On 2014-05-01, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
I haven't followed this thread too closely, so if this has already been stated, please forgive me.
It was not explicitly stated, so I appreciate the succinct summary. Thanks!
Judging from both recent editions of Fedora and the free beta RH7, you don't HAVE to use NetworkManager. You will have to manually turn it off and turn network on, and judging by later versions of Fedora (though not at all deeply researched by me) you may need to use the system-config-network-tui tool rather than just editing /etc/sysocnfig/network/network-scripts/ifcfg-*.
Can you recall what gave you this impression? It'd be frustrating to me to have to keep my hands off of the config files directly. (If not, I understand; if I really want to know that badly I should just check it myself.)
Unfortunately, (and freely admitting much of this may be old person's get of my lawn attitude), it does seem that the Fedora developers are working for the single user laptop, and have little concept of system administration--or, to be fair, have little interest in things for the system administrator, and unfortunately, RedHat just throws these things into their next enterprise version without checking.
Could this be a SIG in the future? "CentOS NM-Haters SIG" ;-)
Does RH really "just throw these things in"? It seems like they would annoy many of their more tech-savvy customers with moves like this one (if it were to happen).
--keith