Re: Plans for 2.20

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 02:01 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> Unless we can tie in the system configuration (and availability of this
> concept of locations or profiles), then the option shouldn't be
> presented to the user (see how you mentioned the network setup alongside
> the proxy setup)[1].
> 
> Is it ready in Solaris? It certainly isn't (in a sensible way) anywhere
> in Linux.

It's not 'ready', no, but it's being very actively worked on in
OpenSolaris.  There's an early prototype available, but I haven't seen
it in action so I don't know how much of this particular functionality
it includes:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/prototype/


Cheeri,
Calum.

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