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..."
KAMiKAZOW
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2005-07-06

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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RE[4]: Here we go again...
by darknexus on Mon 29th Jun 2009 15:57 in reply to "RE[3]: Here we go again..."
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2008-07-15

This is about MIDs, small nebooks, and even advanced cell phones. FreeBSD and (Open)Solaris don't even run on those.

Netbooks? Hmm, funny you should say that... I have both FreeBSD and Opensolaris running on my Eee 1000HE. Here's a news flash for you: just because the hardware changes, a completely new subsystem is typically not needed if the original one can be extended particularly if it works on the same principals. Take networking for example, apart from interfacing needed to bridge to new drivers and/or stacks, the actual process is very similar especially if the userland is decoupled from the physical hardware handling as it should be. But of course, that assumes things are designed well instead of slapped together... oh, wait.

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