Re: NetworkManagerFAQ

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:51 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
>> Based on Dan's blog post I went in and scanned through the FAQ and
>> found that a lot of it was out of date or no longer applied.   I
>> cleaned up a lot of it (It is amazing how much more simple things are
>> with .7 and higher!) but more could be cleaned up if there was a limit
>> to what version we applied it to.
>>
>> Is it safe to assume that most users are on .7 or higher?   I think
>> Ubuntu 8.04 users (LTS) will still be on 6.6, what about RHEL users?
>
> 0.6.x development is effectively dead.  Given that we have now released
> 0.8, I don't have particular interest in supporting anything older than
> 0.7.  Ubuntu 8.04 is two years old at this point.
>
> RHEL4 has NetworkManager 0.4 and I hope nobody is using it.
>
> RHEL5 has NM 0.7 (we rebased from 0.6 to 0.7 in the RHEL5.2 cycle).
>
>> If we still want to keep the information about .6.x users should that
>> be broken out into a second FAQ?
>
> Yeah, probably.
>
> THanks!
> Dan
>
>> Note: A lot of what I updated was to remove some items that should no
>> longer be an issue like the signal strength issue on Madwifi cards
>> etc...   If anyone feels like I deleted too much feel free to let me
>> know or add it back.
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>
>

Ok I will create new page for 0.6.x stuff and basically dump it there.
  The new FAQ focused on 0.7 and 0.8 will be A LOT smaller.