NetworkManager removed from EasyOS

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 

Tags: easy