Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz schreef:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:31:03 -0900
> aurélien <address@hidden> wrote:
> > About wicd, for the free part i can test on my side (rj45 connexion). 
>
> This being a yeeloong, I can only assume wifi will be its most used
> connection - thats the point of a system this size.

If wicd will replace network-manager, I assume it will do so on all 
architectures. Then it can't hurt to also test a cable connection on 
i386, as Aurélien did.

> > The most useful comparaison i can make on it between network manager
> > is :: no way are already existing/writing to install a vpn connexion.
> >
> > On network-manager, you have a pre-installed solution to follow to
> > install it.
>
> This made no sense to me :/

I assume this means that network-manager lets you set up a VPN 
connection, but that wicd doesn't have that feature.

I can add that I've been running wicd for some days now on my Yeeloong 
in a place with generally bad wifi connectivity and I think it's doing 
pretty good. I don't have any concrete measurements (apart from: I don't 
really notice it's there and I don't swear at it), but my feeling is 
that it performs as good (possibly better) as the network-manager I had 
installed from config.fsf.org.