Re: Announcing ConnMan.net

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>]

On Thu June 25 2009, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly launch the ConnMan project, an
> > open source project to accelerate and expand development of Internet
> > connection management for Linux Devices. ConnMan will be utilized as a
> > technology within Moblin and Maemo. Connman.net is now the place to
> > bring developers together who are interested in furthering the
> > development of Internet connection management within Linux. Review the
> > source code for more information. ConnMan is licensed under GPLv2, and
> > provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within Linux
> > devices. ConnMan is a fully modular system that can be extended, through
> > plugins, to support all kinds of wired or wireless technologies.
> > Configuration methods, like DHCP and domain name resolving, are
> > implemented using plug-ins as well. The plug-in approach allows for easy
> > adaption and modification for various use cases. Nokia and Intel will
> > jointly maintain the ConnMan project. We'd like to invite all developers
> > to join the connman.net effort and community.
> >
> > Marcel Holtmann, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> > Jukka Rissanen, Nokia Devices, Maemo Software
>
> I was wondering how this related to networkmanager.
> Dan Williams just posted some comparisons:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/25/networkmanager-and-connman/

It will probably work better more often on more systems. At least that's what 
I'm hoping. NWM refuses to work on my laptop at all (and its a thinkpad, with 
a normal wifi card).

> cheers,
> Pádraig.
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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