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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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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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