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dman on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The destructive desktop — Linux in trouble?

You can still do all of that. NetworkManager is far from the only way to get your box to connect to the internet.

regularfry on Feb 16, 2012 [–]

It does have a tendency to intrude if you don't explicitly configure it not to, or remove it if you're not going to use it. I always forget to tell it not to configure /etc/resolv.conf, and always get confused when DNS lookup breaks.

dman on Feb 17, 2012 | [–]

apt-get purge it!

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