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NetworkManager removed from EasyOS

February 05, 2019 — BarryK

It was an experiment, the last few releases of Easy have NetworkManager and ModemManager, replacing the Puppy-inherited network management tools. They don't really seem to bring that much more "to the table", but they do bring a lot of weight.

I am reverting to the Puppy tools. Here are the removed packages. This list includes dependencies that are not required by anything else. The second column is installed size, uncompressed, in KB:

networkmanager
6456
modemmanager
6368
dnsmasq
316
jansson
64
neard
372
libndp
64
libnewt
132
slang
1988
ofono
2052
libqmi
2648
libmbim
360
mobile-broadband-provider-info
356

The total is 21176KB. In the compressed EasyOS image file, that would become about 7-9MB. The image file is currently about 400MB, so that is a significant drop.

I decided that I would rather keep on improving the network tools inherited from Puppy, and of course the Puppy developers are working on improving those.

Note, they are they all along in Easy, never got removed, and even though NetworkManager is the default, a user may fallback to the older tools.

Many of the mainline distributions use NetworkManager and ModemManager. Here is info about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetworkManager

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/

This is a post when I first started to consider NetworkManager:

http://bkhome.org/news/201811/considering-networkmanager-for-easyos.html

I did also consider 'iwd', a replacement for 'wpa_supplicant', however couldn't get it to work. Here is a blog post when first considering it:

http://bkhome.org/news/201811/iwd-alternative-to-wpasupplicant.html 

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