Star The Pros and "Conns" of Intel's ConnMan for Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jun 2009 08:51 UTC
Linux "Intel has created a new network management and configuration system for Linux called ConnMan - but not everyone is pleased to see it challenge NetworkManager. Ars looks at the pros and "conns" of the decision to create the new software."
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RE[3]: Here we go again...
by KAMiKAZOW on Mon 29th Jun 2009 14:25 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Here we go again..."
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If you contrast this with *BSD, Solaris, and the like you see that those platforms have managed to keep their subsystems relatively stable for a very long period of time. FreeBSD, for example, though at major version 7 can run applications compiled as far back as to be built for version 4. A driver for Solaris 10 will typically still work, pre-built no less, on Opensolaris even up to the latest builds.

Yeah, here's a newsflash for you: Hardware moves faster than the long living subsystems you like.
This is about MIDs, small nebooks, and even advanced cell phones. FreeBSD and (Open)Solaris don't even run on those.

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