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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:10:11 +1030 |
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:55:40 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
Fair point.
> >> 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.
ah, ok, that makes sense.
> 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.
thanks,
kk
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- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: Tying together the network-manager work, (continued)
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: Tying together the network-manager work, Karl Goetz, 2010/02/22
- [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, aurélien, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Karl Goetz, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Sam Geeraerts, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Graziano, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Ted Smith, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Karl Goetz, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Ted Smith, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Karl Goetz, 2010/02/23
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd, Graziano, 2010/02/24
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