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From: David Bolt on 22 Jul 2010 06:43 On Thursday 22 Jul 2010 11:24, while playing with a tin of spray paint, houghi painted this mural: <snip> > Unfortunatly not. I am still not sure what SCPM does. I looked and I do > not have that F3 option. What does this option do? From what I read from > http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/119875 all that SCPM does is exactly > what NetworkManager. > There is a CLI NetworkManager as well. > > What I am trying to figure out if there are things that could be done > with SCPM which could not be done with NetworkManager. From what I see > at this moment and never have worked with SCPM, i am guessing that > NetworkManager does the same, but is more flexible. From the snippets I've read, SCPM does more than just keep profiles for the network configuration. It allows for hardware to be configured differently, so different printer settings, sound settings, monitor setting(?) which could[0] be selected at boot time using the F3 option inside grub. [0] Or would do, but there was some mention on the Factory mailing list of that option being removed from grub some time before SCPM was dropped. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net | | openSUSE 11.3RC2 32b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: Mexx Headroooommm on 22 Jul 2010 07:06 �David Bolt� schrieb (wrote) am (on) 22.07.2010 12:43 > From the snippets I've read, SCPM does more than just keep profiles for > the network configuration. It allows for hardware to be configured > differently, so different printer settings, sound settings, monitor > setting(?) which could[0] be selected at boot time using the F3 option > inside grub. David, yep that's what I tried to explain... thx for helping in this matter. Well I have to say that I switched from 11.1 to 11.3. And as you wrote, they dropped it without given any reason for. I'm just wondering. greets -Markus
From: mjt on 22 Jul 2010 11:57
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:24:46 +0200 houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > Unfortunatly not. I am still not sure what SCPM does. SCPM and NetworkManager share functionality, which is related to network management. SCPM and NetworkManager do not work in parallel (at least my experience with SLED). SCPM is used to restore a system with a specific setup, the idea being that a system would have more than one setup (otherwise, why use it). SCPM goes beyond network setup. SCPM is obviously engineered with an emphasis on portable computers, such as laptops - traveling consultants and sysadmins are popular users of SCPM. A person might have 2 or 3+ different work environments they need their system to be configured for. Printers will be different, power-settings while on the road or if plugged in to the wall, different time-zones if you're a traveler between static destinations, and different graphical setups (maybe you're in sales and do projected presentations for groups of people), and changing the keyboard mapping, and you can even define partitions used. SCPM is about choosing a defined "system configuration", not just changing the "network configuration". If you have 11.2 (or prior version) installed, why not fire it up and run through a Profile configuration to see what's configurable :) -- A new dramatist of the absurd Has a voice that will shortly be heard. I learn from my spies He's about to devise An unprintable three-letter word. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>> |