NetworkManager 0.7.1 About To Arrive

[urfe]

Well, I know it's silly, but I hope they finally added a disconnect button in the applet...

[mgc8]

Always someone willing to step up and complain about free... perhaps assist in testing the RC to ensure the bugs and regressions are identified.

This type of answer is really starting to bug me everytime I hear it in F/OSS environments. It's extremely counterproductive and sure to make newcomers to the community feel unwelcome.

I won't even touch on the fact that the "complainer" here is an active contributor to several projects and actually maintains a live-CD distro :-/

Let's see, there are more than 20000 packages in any decent Linux distribution. Many (most?) of them have bugs in various situations. Should someone be obliged to contribute and submit patches to ALL of those? Get serious! The fact that the software is free doesn't make it somehow "holly" and untouchable, and complaining actually serves a very good purpose -- to make the developers aware of problems and motivate them into fixing those.

By the way, Linus repeatedly complained about how crappy GNOME was in his view and recently again about the state of KDE. Does that mean he's a lamer for not wasting his time in trying to fix those packages?!

One can contribute with patches, bug-reports, suggestions and yes, even complaints. That's what makes a community! Let's not forget that a lot of us can be developers at one time and users the next. But that doesn't mean we have to investigate and debug every single bit of software installed on a machine just because "it's free"...

Anyway, networkmanager is usually the first package I purge on recent installations. I used to like it in the beginning, now... not so much. I didn't even complain about it, see what a neat little free-citizen I am? :-/

[Craig73]

Always someone willing to step up and complain about free... perhaps assist in testing the RC to ensure the bugs and regressions are identified.

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Thanks for the new version guys! Great to see active FOSS projects delivering great value.

[ethana2]

I can't wait for broadcasting new networks.. to be able to chat over Bonjour without a router..

[Kano]

There are fixes really needed. The quality of that tool really DOWNGRADED...

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetworkManager 0.7.1 About To Arrive

NetworkManager, the exceptional free software utility for managing wired and wireless (including mobile broadband / cellular connections), is about to reach its next major milestone since the release of NetworkManager 0.7.0 in the second half of 2008. Red Hat's Dan Williams and his fellow NetworkManager engineers are preparing to release NetworkManager 0.7.1. The NetworkManager 0.7.1 update includes a whole slew of fixes, updated translations, and new support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzA3NQ